Guillermo González Camarena - Wikipedia

Mexican electrical engineer and inventor In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is González and the second or maternal family name is Camarena.

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Guillermo González Camarena
Guillermo González Camarena
Born	(1917-02-17)17 February 1917Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Died	18 April 1965(1965-04-18) (aged 48)Amozoc, Puebla, Mexico
Education	National Polytechnic Institute
Spouse	María Antonieta Becerra Acosta
Parent(s)	Sara Camarena, Arturo González
Engineering career
Discipline	Electrical engineer
Institutions	The Guillermo González Camarena Foundation
Projects	Chromoscopic adapter for television equipment

Guillermo González Camarena (17 February 1917 – 18 April 1965) was a Mexican electrical engineer who invented color television.[1]

Early life

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González Camarena was born in Guadalajara, Mexico. His parents were from the town of Arandas, Jalisco. He was the youngest of seven siblings. One of his brothers, Jorge González Camarena, was a famous Mexican muralist.

González Camarena graduated as an electrical engineer from the National Polytechnic Institute in Mexico City.[1]

Death

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He died in a car crash in Puebla on April 18, 1965 at the age of 48, returning from inspecting a television transmitter (that of XHGC relayer XHAJ-TV) in Las Lajas, Veracruz.[2]

Legacy

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A field-sequential color television system similar to his multicolor system was used in NASA's Voyager mission in 1979, to take pictures and videos of Jupiter.[3]

There was a Mexican science research and technology group created La Fundación Guillermo González Camarena or The Guillermo González Camarena Foundation in 1995 that was beneficial to creative and talented inventors in Mexico.

At the same time, the IPN began construction on the Centro de Propiedad Intelectual "Guillermo González Camarena" (Guillermo González Camarena Intellectual Property Center).

External links

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• Patent 2296019 Chromoscopic adapter for television equipment. Google Patents
• The Original Patent For Color Television Explained

References

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1. ^ a b Celestine, KC (30 July 2022). "Guillermo González Camarena: Inventor of the Color TV".
2. ^ "Made in Mexico: Color T.V". Retrieved August 20, 2025.
3. ^ * Enrique Krauze - Guillermo González-Camarena Jr. "50 años de la televisión mexicana" (50th anniversary of Mexican TV) - 1999 Mexican TV documentary produced by Editorial Clío & Televisa, broadcast in 2000)

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