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Shoenberg was born in Pinsk, Imperial Russia (now Belarus) and studied mathematics, mechanical engineering, and electricity in St. Petersburg. | Shoenberg was born in Pinsk, Imperial Russia (now Belarus) and studied mathematics, mechanical engineering, and electricity in St. Petersburg. | ||
1905 Shoenberg went to work with S. M. Aisenstein at St Petersburg | |||
1907 Their enterprise became the Russian Wireless Telegraph and Telephone Company | |||
1911 The company became the Russian Marconi Company. He was the chief engineer of this pioneer enterprise, responsible for the research, design, and installation of the earliest wireless stations in Russia. The links between the British and Russian Marconi companies brought him into contact with England which attracted him. | |||
1914 he moved to London with his wife and four children. He was admitted to work for a higher degree at the Imperial College of Science and Technology. | |||
On the outbreak of war, he volunteered for military service, but was turned down on medical grounds. He then joined the [[Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co|Marconi Wireless and Telegraph Co]]. He soon became head of the patents department, and then general manager. | |||
1919 He became a British subject. | |||
Became friends with Louis Sterling, head of the [[Columbia Graphophone Co]]. Sterling invited Shoenberg to join Columbia and to introduce his ideas about sound recording. | |||
1928 Appointed general manager. | |||
He remained with the company through the merger that became [[EMI]] Shoenberg became director of research and head of patents under Sterling as managing director. The important question was whether the company should, at a time of severe recession, continue with television, which was showing little promise, and was viewed with scepticism. Mechanical methods had no future, and no electronic solution was in sight. | |||
in the early 1930s making significant contributions to the development of television. He was [[Alan Blumlein]]'s supervisor at the central research labs at Hayes during the time Blumlein invented stereo recording. | |||
Shoenberg was knighted in 1962. | Shoenberg was knighted in 1962. | ||
Revision as of 08:07, 11 August 2016
Sir Isaac Shoenberg (1 March 1880 – 25 January 1963) was an electronic engineer born in Russia who was best known for his role in history of television.
Shoenberg was born in Pinsk, Imperial Russia (now Belarus) and studied mathematics, mechanical engineering, and electricity in St. Petersburg.
1905 Shoenberg went to work with S. M. Aisenstein at St Petersburg
1907 Their enterprise became the Russian Wireless Telegraph and Telephone Company
1911 The company became the Russian Marconi Company. He was the chief engineer of this pioneer enterprise, responsible for the research, design, and installation of the earliest wireless stations in Russia. The links between the British and Russian Marconi companies brought him into contact with England which attracted him.
1914 he moved to London with his wife and four children. He was admitted to work for a higher degree at the Imperial College of Science and Technology.
On the outbreak of war, he volunteered for military service, but was turned down on medical grounds. He then joined the Marconi Wireless and Telegraph Co. He soon became head of the patents department, and then general manager.
1919 He became a British subject.
Became friends with Louis Sterling, head of the Columbia Graphophone Co. Sterling invited Shoenberg to join Columbia and to introduce his ideas about sound recording.
1928 Appointed general manager.
He remained with the company through the merger that became EMI Shoenberg became director of research and head of patents under Sterling as managing director. The important question was whether the company should, at a time of severe recession, continue with television, which was showing little promise, and was viewed with scepticism. Mechanical methods had no future, and no electronic solution was in sight.
in the early 1930s making significant contributions to the development of television. He was Alan Blumlein's supervisor at the central research labs at Hayes during the time Blumlein invented stereo recording.
Shoenberg was knighted in 1962.
With his wife Esther, Shoenberg was the father of British physicist David Shoenberg, gynaecologist Rosalie Shoenberg Taylor, psychiatrist Elisabeth Shoenberg, Mark Shoenberg and Alec Shoenberg.
1963 Obituary [1]