Guillermo González Camarena (17 February 1917 – 18 April 1965) was a Mexican
electrical engineer
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who made a color-wheel type of
color television
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.
Early life
González Camarena was born in
Guadalajara
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, Mexico. His parents were from the town of
Arandas, Jalisco. He was the youngest of seven siblings. One of his brothers,
Jorge González Camarena, is a famous Mexican muralist.
González Camarena graduated as an electrical engineer from the
National Polytechnic Institute
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in Mexico City.
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.
Legacy
A
field-sequential color television system similar to his Tricolor system was used in
NASA
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's
Voyager mission 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 TV) - 1999 Mexican TV documentary produced by Editorial Clío & ]Televisa
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In April ...
, 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