Biography

	Adamyan Hovhannes (Abgar)
Armenian:	Ադամյան Հովհաննես Աբգարի
Russian:	Адамян Ованес Абгарович ;
Born:	17.02.1879 ; Baku, Azerbaijan
Died:	12.02.1932 ; Leningrad, Russia
	Description:; Engineer, color TV and photo telegram inventor.

Was born on February 17, 1879 in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Education

In 1907-1908 patended binary television.
In 1907 first in the world attempted to transmit color images with wires at 600 km from Berlin.
In 1913 nominated for the "Intermediate Clice" system of photo terlegramming.
In 1920 invented the "Distant Imaging Device".
In 1925 licensed a tricolor TV project- "A Non-Discriminatory Device to See" which color reproduction disk is known as the "A Disk"
In 1925 created and displayed the "Trivia" tricolor device at the Yerevan laboratory.
In 1930 carried out tghe broadcast of the first photo telegram from Moscow to Leningrad.

After studying had been engaged in the problems of reporting images at distance and founded close relations with scientific and higher educational institutions and prominent scientists from a number of European countries.
Created a laboratory on his own in Germany and made a number of inventions (first substantiated the possibility of transmitting and reproducing images through electricity, realized the first attempt of transmitting color images with wires at 600 km).
At the end of 1913 moved to Russia and settled in Petrograd (Leningrad) until 1932.
His principle of tricolor TV was first used in London in 1928.
In 1945-1951 the American "Columbia" radistation performed an experimental demonstration, and in 1951-1953 Adamyan's system was accepted as a stable system and began to be used in transmitting color images.
Is the brother of the Adamyan sisters and Adamyan Arshak.
Is buried in the Komitas Pantheon, Yerevan.

Adamyan Hovhannes (Abgar)

Armenian:	Ադամյան Հովհաննես Աբգարի
Russian:	Адамян Ованес Абгарович
Born:	17.02.1879 Baku, Azerbaijan
Died:	12.02.1932 Leningrad, Russia
Description: Engineer, color TV and photo telegram inventor.