Ken Crane

Ken Crane's

Joseph Donahue

RCA

Harry Elias

JVC Company of America

George Fezell

Magnavox

Saul Gold

North American Retailers Association

William Hewlett

HP

Art Levis

Consumer Electronics Monthly; Video Magazine

Jack Luskin

Maryland Public Broadcasting Commission; NATM

Masaharu Matsushita

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd.

David Packard

HP

John Winegard

Winegard Company

Harry Brief

Home Furnishings Daily

Alan Dower Blumlein

EMI

Dr. Joel Engel

Bell Labs

Richard Frenkiel

Bell Labs

Robert Gersen

TWICE

Ken Kai

Pioneer

Jerry Kavlov

Kay Associates/Cobra Electronics

Paul Klipsch

Klipsch Audio Technologies

Norio Ohga

Sony

Dr. Woo Paik

General Instrument

Steven Wozniak

Apple

Herbert Borchardt

Founder of electronics accessories industry

Leonard Feldman

AT&T Bell Laboratories

William Kasuga

Kenwood

Atwater Kent

Radio manufacturing

Kees Schouhammer‐Immink

Inventor of CD, DVD, Blu-Ray

Jules Steinberg

Kenjiro Takayanagi

Pioneer in development of television

Joseph Tushinsky

Sony

Alan Wurtzel

Circuit City

Ernst F.W. Alexanderson

Radio and Television Pioneer

Bernard Appel

Radio Shack

W.G.B. Baker

EIA

William Boss

RCA

Richard Ekstract

Audio/Video

Walter Fisher

Zenith

Raymond Gates

Panasonic

Sol Polk

Polk Brothers

William Powell Lear

Learjet

Jack Sauter

RCA

Sir John Ambrose Fleming

Designed radio transmitter

Emile Berliner

Gramophone Company

Hugo Gernsback

Editor and Magazine Publisher

Peter Laurits Jensen

Magnavox

Earl Muntz

Inventor of Muntzing

Valdemar Poulsen

Developed magnetic wire recorder

George Westinghouse

Westinghouse Electric Corporate

Benjamin Abrams

Emerson Radio and Phonograph Corp.

Robert Adler

Inventor of the remote control

Edwin Armstrong

Creator of FM radio

William Balderston

Philco Corp.

John Bardeen

Co-inventor of the transistor

Andre Blay

Magnetic Video

Walter Brattain

Co-inventor of the transistor

Nolan Bushnell

Atari

Powel Crosley Jr.

First mass-market radio

Lee DeForest

Vacuum tube development

Ray Dolby

Dolby Laboratories Inc.

Allen DuMont

Inventor of cathode ray tube used in television receivers

Thomas Edison

Developer of the light bulb, storage battery, and phonograph

Carl Eilers

Developer of stereo FM and stereo TV

Philo Farnsworth

Television pioneer

Karl Ferdinand Braun

Inventor of the oscillograph

Reginald Aubrey Fessenden

Developer of radio broadcasting

Avery Fisher

Inventor of the transistorized amplifier and combination stereo radio/phonograph

Frank Freimann

Magnavox

Paul Galvin

Motorola

Charles Ginsberg

Ampex (developed first practical videotape recorder)

Peter Goldmark

Inventor of the 33rpm vinyl LP record and the first color TV system

Alexander Graham Bell

Inventor of telephone

Dr. Sidney Harman

Developer of the first receiver

Heinrich Hertz

First to demonstrate the production and detection of Maxwell's waves

Hermon Hosmer Scott

HH Scott

Masaru Ibuka

Sony

Eldridge Johnson

The Victor Talking Machine Co.

Jack Kilby

Co-inventor of the integrated circuit

Henry Kloss

Co-developer of the acoustic suspension speaker and large-screen projection TV

John Koss Sr.

Designer of the first commercial headphones

David Lachenbruch

Television expert

James Lansing

Speaker technology

John Logie Baird

"Father of Television"

Guglielmo Macroni

Inventor of wireless telegraphy

Saul Marantz

Pioneer in high-fidelity music systems

Konosuke Matsushita

Panasonic

Cmdr. Eugene McDonald Jr.

Zenith Radio Corp.

Akio Morita

Sony

Robert Noyce

Intel Corp.

Alexander Poniatoff

Ampex

Ed Roberts

MITS

David Sarnoff

RCA

Yuma Shiraishi

William Shockley

Bell Labs

Ross Siragusa Sr.

Admiral Corp.

Shizuo Takano

Developed VHS videocassette recorder

Nikola Tesla

Tesla

Jack Wayman

Created CES

Vladimir Zworykin

Television pioneer