Frederic Eugene Ives and Herbert Eugene Ives papers, 1869-1957

Biographical Notes

Date	Event
1856, Feb. 17	Born, Litchfield, Conn.
1866	Moved to Norfolk, Conn.
1868	Ended formal schooling
1868-1870	Served apprenticeship on Litchfield Enquirer
1874-1878	Directed photographic laboratory, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
1879	Married Mary Elizabeth Olmstead (died 1904) Employed by Crosscup and West, a photographic company in Philadelphia, Pa.
1885	Invented the half-tone system of developing photographic negatives
1890	Invented Kronshop, a system of color photography
1903	Invented short-tube microscope
1912	Invented Tripak, a color camera
1913	Married Margaret Campbell Cutting
1928	Published Autobiography of an Amateur Inventor. Privately printed
1937, May 27	Died, Philadelphia, Pa.

Date	Event
1882, July 31	Born, Philadelphia, Pa.
1892	Attended University College School, London, England
1897-1898	Attended Laurence Sheriff School, Rugby, England
1898-1901	Worked for Ives-Kronshop Co. Philadelphia, Pa.
1899-1900	Attended Franklin Institute Night School of Mathematics, Philadelphia, Pa.
1901-1905	Attended University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.
1905-1908	Attended Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, Md.
1908	Married Mabel Lorenz
1908-1909	Worked for National Bureau of Standards, Washington, D.C.
1910-1912	Worked for National Electric Lamp Association Research Laboratory, Cleveland, Ohio
1912-1918	Worked for United Gas Improvement Company, Philadelphia, Pa.
1918-1919	Captain, United States Army Air Service
1919-1948	Worked for Bell Telephone Laboratories
1920	Published Airplane Photography
1924	Helped perfect a workable system of transmitting pictures over telephone lines
1927	Directed first practical demonstration of television over substantial distances
1953, Nov. 3	Died, New York, N. Y.