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A Russian emigrant Vladimir Zworykin began working in the USA as an engineer for the Westinghouse in 1920. Working essentially alone, he developed an electronic television installation and in 1923 submitted an application for the invention of a new type of television system. An experimental setup did not make a big impression on the company's management, after which the inventor was given another job. David Sarnoff, Vice President of Radio Corporation of America (RCA), otherwise appreciated significance of the completed development. In 1929 he invited Zworykin to work at RCA as head of the electronics laboratory. Being in the know of new developments in this area, Sarnoff believed in the prospects of the television system by Zworykin, thus providing great support to his work, even during the Great economic depression. In 1936, RCA conducted a pilot broadcast of electronic television programs using a transmitter installed in the Empire State Building in New York. In 1939, at the New York World's Fair, David Sarnoff announced the beginning of the era of mass television in the United States. 15 years later, at the celebration of Zworykin on the occasion of his 65th birthday, Sarnoff will say: "Thanks to electron, RCA has turned from a small company with modest funds into a leader of a huge industry. True scientific spirit, close cooperation of colleagues with Dr. Zworykin became the source of the results that we are so proud of."