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Ralph H. Baer
Ralph Henry Baer was a German-born American inventor, game developer, and engineer.
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business · American inventor and engineer (1922–2014) · inventor · entrepreneur · engineer · patent inventor · video game developer · designer · electrical engineer · software developer · also Ralph H. Baer, Ralph Hendrikson Baer, Ralph Henry Baer, Baer
Born 8 March 1922 · Died 6 December 2014 · Q70997
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2026· 1 entry
2021· 1 entry
The United States Mint announced that Baer and "Handball" would be honored as part of the American Innovation dollars program
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2019· 1 entry
A statue was placed in Baer's honor in Arms Park in Manchester, New Hampshire
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2014· 4 entries
According to family and friends close to him
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Died 2014-12-06.
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Won Edison Medal (2014).
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His workshop was removed from the basement of his house on Mayflower Drive in Manchester and to the museum, where it is now on permanent display in the museum’s Innovation Wing
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2010· 2 entries
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (2010).
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Baer was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame at a ceremony at the United States Department of Commerce in Washington, D
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2008· 2 entries
Won National Medal of Technology and Innovation (2008).
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Awarded IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award (2008).
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2006· 5 entries
Baer was awarded the National Medal of Technology by President George W
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Baer donated hardware prototypes and documents to the Smithsonian Institution
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And in view of my having been inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, I really don't feel neglected
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Baer donated many of his inventions to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History
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“In view of the fact that the President of the United States of America hung the National Medal of Technology around my neck in a White House ceremony in 2006, and in view of my having been inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, I really don”
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1971· 1 entry
The technology was licensed to Magnavox, which completed the design and released it in September 1972 as the Magnavox Odyssey
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1966· 1 entry
While an employee at Sanders Associates, Baer started to explore the possibility of playing games on television screens
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1951· 2 entries
Baer went to work as a senior engineer for Loral Electronics in Bronx, New York, where he designed power line carrier signaling equipment, contracting for IBM
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Another electronics company, however, they were uninterested in the project at the time
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1949· 1 entry
Baer went to work as chief engineer for a small electro-medical equipment firm called Wappler, Inc
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1946· 1 entry
Presented a large collection of weaponry he had amassed (about 18 short tons (16,000 kg)) to museums in Aberdeen, Maryland; Springfield, Massachusetts; and Fort Riley, Kansas
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1943· 1 entry
Was drafted to fight in World War II and assigned to military intelligence at the United States Army headquarters in London
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1938· 1 entry
Just two months prior to Kristallnacht, while Baer was a teenager
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1922· 2 entries
Born 1922-03-08.
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To Lotte (Kirschbaum) and Leo Baer, a Jewish family living in Germany, in Pirmasens, and was originally named Rudolf Heinrich Baer
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1839· 1 entry
“Talk to an Art-Union (A Brooklyn fragment)”
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