Joseph Tykociński-Tykociner
Polish engineer
Died when: 91 years 249 days (1100 months)Star Sign: Libra
Joseph Tykocinski-Tykociner (also known as Joseph T.Tykociner; 5 October 1877, in Wloclawek, Congress Poland – 11 June 1969, in Urbana, Illinois, United States) was a Polish engineer and a pioneer of sound-on-film technology.
In 1921 he became the first research professor of engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Within a year of his arrival at the University, he conducted the first sound-on-film motion picture recordings at a physics demonstration that showed how pictures and sound could be synchronized to produce a "talkie", a motion picture with sound.
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