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Ralph Henry Baer (born Rudolf Heinrich Baer; March 8, 1922 – December 6, 2014) was an American inventor, game developer, and engineer. Baer's Jewish family fled Germany just before World War II and Baer served the American war effort, gaining an interest in electronics shortly thereafter.
The first home video game console was developed as a side project by engineer Ralph H. Baer and several assistants at Sanders. The production of the final product was granted to Magnavox, a home electronics company, and sold under the name Magnavox Odyssey.
The Magnavox Odyssey is the first commercial home video game console.The hardware was designed by a small team led by Ralph H. Baer at Sanders Associates, while Magnavox completed development and released it in the United States in September 1972 and overseas the following year.
Simon is an electronic game of short-term memory skill invented by Ralph H. Baer and Howard J. Morrison, working for toy design firm Marvin Glass and Associates, [1] with software programming by Lenny Cope. The device creates a series of tones and lights and requires a user to repeat the sequence.
The inventor, Ralph H. Baer, had initially had the idea in 1951 to make an interactive game on a television set. Unable to do so with the technological constraints at the time, he began work on a device that would attach to a television set and display games in 1966, and the "Brown Box", the last prototype of seven, was licensed to Magnavox to ...
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Maniac is an electronic game created by Ralph H. Baer (the inventor of Simon), and released by the Ideal Toy Company. Maniac [1] is "four games in one". Instructions refer to the individual games as challenges. In the first Challenge, Musical Maniac, Maniac plays random tones and then suddenly stops.
Ralph R. Teetor was "one of the nation's best known automotive engineers" of his time. Now his story is being told. Documentary on Ralph R. Teetor, inventor of cruise control, to be screened in ...