Herbert E. Ives
| Herbert Eugene Ives | |
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Ives circa 1913
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| Born | July 21, 1882 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Died | November 13, 1953 (aged 71) Upper Montclair, New Jersey |
| Education | University of Pennsylvania |
| Spouse(s) | Mabel Lorenz (m. 1908) |
| Children | Barbara Ives Beyer Kenneth Ives Ronald Ives |
| Parent(s) | Frederic Eugene Ives Mary Olmstead |
| Engineering career | |
| Projects |
facsimile videotelephony television |
| Awards |
Edward Longstreth Medal (1907, 1915 and 1919) Frederic Ives Medal (1937) Medal for Merit (1948) |
Herbert Eugene Ives (July 21, 1882 – November 13, 1953) was a scientist and engineer who headed the development of facsimile and television systems at AT&T in the first half of the twentieth century. He is best known for the 1938 Ives–Stilwell experiment, which provided direct confirmation of special relativity's time dilation, although Ives himself did not accept special relativity, and argued instead for an alternative interpretation of the experimental results.
He was born on July 21, 1882 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Frederic Eugene Ives and Mary Olmstead. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania and the Johns Hopkins University, where he graduated in 1908. He married Mabel Lorenz in the same year and they had three children.
He wrote a 1920 book on aerial photography, while an Army reserve officer, in the aviation section. Ives was also an avid coin collector, and becoming president of the American Numismatic Society. He additionally became president of the Optical Society of America from 1924 to 1925. At the Bell Labs he became its Director of Electro-Optical Research.
Like his father Frederic Eugene Ives, Herbert was an expert on color photography. In 1924, he transmitted and reconstructed the first color facsimile, using color separations. In 1927, he demonstrated 185-line long-distance television, transmitting the live video images of then-Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover via AT&T's experimental station 3XN in Whippany, New Jersey, allowing media reporters to both see and communicate with Hoover.
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