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The First Video Game

A Biography about William Higinbotham. Oct. 25, 1910-Nov. 10, 1994

Background info

William "Willy" Higanbotham was an engineer at Brookhaven National Labs. Throughout his life, William Higanbotham went to William's Colledge, then went to graduate school at Cornell to become an electronics technitian. Then, he joined the MIT radiation lab to work on cathode tube ray displays for radar systems. Soon after, he joined the Los Alamos electronics team to work on a timing system for the first atomic bomb. 5 years later, he joined Brookhaven National Labs to work on instrumentation.

Higinbotham was tasked to make an exibit to captu...

Higinbotham was tasked to make an exibit to capture viewer's intrests, so he made tennis for two, which was one of the only interactive exibits in the lab.

This is what tennis for two looked like:

And this is a video of how it is played:

career and acomplishments

carreer and acomplishments

Before William higanbotham made Tennis for two, he had some other passions. These included...

working at the MIT radiation lab to help improve radar systems,

Worked on a timiming system for atomic bombs,

and finally working at brookhaven national labs.

Some quotes

These are some not-so-famous quotes of William Higinbotham!

Quotes

"I knew from past visitors days that people we...

"I knew from past visitors days that people were not much interested in static exhibits," said Higinbotham, "so for that year. I came up with an idea for a hands-on display – a video tennis game."

"But if I had realized just how significant it was, I wou...

"But if I had realized just how significant it was, I would have taken out a patent and the U.S. government would own it!" he said.

"It was simple to design," remembered Higinboth...

"It was simple to design," remembered Higinbotham. "Back then, analog computers were used to work out all kinds of mechanical problems. They didn't have the accuracy of digital computers, which were very crude at the time, but then you didn't need a great deal of precision to play TV games. "

awards and recognitions

Although William Higanbotham did not recive any rewards, many people know him as "that guy that made the first video game", and to some, that is huge!

Memorial

this is my memorial: https://www.tinkercad.com/things/i7RekKG8Mfx-william-higanbotham-monument The reason that I put in "Thank you for inspiring hearts everywhere" is because William Higinbotham started the technology age, therefore encouraging others.

Bibliography

https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200810/physicshistory.cfm

https://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/videogame.html https://fas.org/pir-pubs/who-was-willy-higinbotham/

http://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/libspecial/videogames/whbio.html

https://www.bnl.gov/about/history/firstvideo.php

https://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/william-higinbotham.html

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/01eb/cfc6ec7186a21b2504483ee5861d2cf3ce8f.pdf

Thank you! P.S. pneumonoultramicroscopic-silicovolcanoconios...

Thank you! P.S. pneumonoultramicroscopic-silicovolcanoconiosis is not a laughing matter. P.P.S. here is my model: https://www.tinkercad.com/things/i7RekKG8Mfx-william-higanbotham-monument

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