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Peter Carl Goldmark
Pages 103-108

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... BAUER PETER C GOLDMARK, a Member of the National Academy of Engineering, President and Director of Research of Goldmark Communications Corporation, and previously for many years Chief Research Executive of Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)
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... , which was instrumental in encouraging parallel efforts of others that have led to video disc technology, currently being vigorously pursued by several companies in the United States and abroad. Among Peter Goldmark's other important inventions was the first"high-fidelity" packaged, integrated phonograph, which used the volume of air within its enclosures to enhance the quality of sound; a pioneering reverberation generating device for livening -- r ~ -- ~ ~ the quality of recorded and broadcast music, a "talking-book" phonograph the size of a cigar box capable of four hours of recorded sound on a single seven-inch disc; a "crispening system" for sharpening television images; a rapid transmission system for recording up to thirty educational TV programs on a one-hour reel 104
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... He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1967, to the National Academy of Sciences in 1972, and to the Connecticut Academy of Sciences and Engineering in 1976. He was a Trustee of the Connecticut Educational Telecommunications Corporation and a Visiting Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School in Medical Electronics and of Fairfield University in Communications Technology.
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... Zworykin Prize for Television Technology (1961~; the National Urban Service Award "for his efforts in the War on Poverty" (1968~; the David Sarnoff Gold Medal Award "for outstanding scientific contribution to the Advancement of Television Technology" (19691; the Elliott Cresson Medal, Franklin Institute, "for his many outstanding contributions to the Field of Electronics, and particularly with respect to the development of the long-playing record, a practical color television system and the home video playback system" (1969~; the Carnegie-Mellon Institute Medal "for continuing leadership and contribution to the Betterment of Science for Mankind" (1972~; and the National Medal of Science, which was bestowed upon him in 1977 only a few days before his death. Among the honorary degrees awarded to him were the Doctorate of Humane Letters from Dartmouth College, Doctorate of Science from Fairfield University, and Doctorate of Engineering from Polytechnic Institute of New York.
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