Biographical Notes

Frederic Eugene Ives

• 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.

Herbert Eugene Ives

• 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.

From the guide to the Frederic Eugene Ives and Herbert Eugene Ives Papers, 1869-1957, (bulk 1900-1952), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)