Long before Silicon Slopes began, Utah has been a hotbed of innovation and entrepreneurship.
Dr. Willem Kolff, who immigrated to Utah from Holland and started the Department of Artificial Organs.Dr. Robert Jarvik, who was the principal designer for the model of artificial heart used, the Jarvik-7.
He was not only a gifted musician and household name during the swing band era, but his family said "he sometimes considered himself more of a frustrated electrical engineer than a musician," according to He was just 21 years old when he transferred the first successful image electronically. But the television was just one of many inventions and ideas that sprang from his work. He also influenced the invention of radar, electron microscopes and baby incubators. Unfortunately, he never got the credit he deserved while he was alive.
Bushnell grew up in Utah in the 1940s and attended the University of Utah, where he learned the basics of computer graphics. He invented his first computerized video game in 1970. A few years later, he created Pong — a video game version of ping pong. MIT says the game was so popular at the bar it debuted in that it broke down. The machine was stuffed with too many quarters!Far from being a time-waster, Bushnell believed video games were great for curiosity and creativity.
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