Guillermo González Camarena (17 February 1917 – 18 April 1965) was a Mexican
electrical engineer
Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...
who was the inventor of a color-wheel type of
color television
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.
Early life
González Camarena was born in Guadalajara, Mexico. He was the youngest of seven siblings, among sculptor
Jorge González Camarena
Jorge González Camarena (24 March 1908 – 24 May 1980) was a Mexican painter, muralist and sculptor. He is best known for his mural work, as part of the Mexican muralism movement, although his work is distinct from the main names associat ...
.
Death
He died in a car crash in
Puebla
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on April 18, 1965 (at the age of 48), returning from inspecting a
television transmitter
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in
Las Lajas, Veracruz
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.
Legacy
A
field-sequential color television system similar to his Tricolor system was used in
NASA
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NASA was established in 1958, succeeding t ...
's
Voyager mission
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in 1979, to take pictures and video of
Jupiter
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.
[*Enrique Krauze - Guillermo González-Camarena Jr. ''"50 años de la televisión mexicana"'' (50th anniversary of Mexican T.V.) - Year 1999 Mexican T.V. Documentary produced by ]Editorial Clío
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& Televisa
Grupo Televisa is a Mexican multimedia mass media company. A major Latin American mass media corporation, it often presents itself as the largest producer of Spanish-language content.
In April 2021, Televisa and Univision Communications announce ...
, broadcast in 2000)
There was a Mexican science research and technology group created ''La Funck Guillermo González Camarena or The Guillermo González Camarena Foundation in 1995'' that was beneficial to creative and talented inventors in Mexico.
At the same time, the
''IPN'' began construction on the ''Centro de Propiedad Intelectual "Guillermo González Camarena" (Guillermo González Camarena Intellectual Property Center)''.
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External links
Patent 2296019 Chromoscopic adapter for television equipment. Google PatentsThe Original Patent For Color Television Explained
References
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1917 births
1965 deaths
History of television
Amateur radio people
Mexican telecommunications engineers
Mexican inventors
People from Guadalajara, Jalisco
Television pioneers
Road incident deaths in Mexico
20th-century inventors
Early color television