Robert McNees on Nostr: Physicist William Higinbotham was born OTD in 1910. During the Manhattan Project he ...
Physicist William Higinbotham was born OTD in 1910. During the Manhattan Project he was the Electronics Group leader at Los Alamos.
In 1958, while working at Brookhaven Lab, he invented one of the first video games: “Tennis for Two.” It ran on an oscilloscope.
Image: Brookhaven
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