GUILLERMO GONZALEZ CAMARENA February 17, 1917 – April18, 1965

The inventor of a color-wheel type of color television

Guillermo González Camarena invented an early system of color television. He received US patent 2296019 on September 15, 1942, for his “chromscopic adapter for television equipment”. González Camarena publicly demonstrated his color television with a transmission on August 31, 1946. The color transmission was broadcast direct from his laboratory in Mexico City

Guillermo González Camarena invented an early system of the color televison. He received US patent 2296019 on September 15, 1942, for his “chromscopic adapter for television equipment”. González Camarena publicly demonstrated his color television with a transmission on August 31, 1946. The color transmission was broadcast direct from his laboratory in Mexico City.He died in a car accident in Puebla on April 18, 1965, returning from inspecting a television transmitter in Las Lajas.

These are the things that have been created to honor his legacy since his death in Las Lajas A field-sequential color television system similar to his Tricolor system was used in NASA’s Voyager mission in 1979, to take pictures and video of Jupiter.

On April 18, 1965 (at the age of 48) returning from inspection a television transmitter in Las Lajas, Veracruz he was in a tragic automobile accident and died in in Puebla.

He patent diagram (left) from Guillermo González Camarena’s chromoscopic adapter, and he and the engineer (right inspecting TV equipment around 1955 in Mexico City. Photos: U.S. Patent Office and Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia de México