The book is dedicated to the life and work of the world famous scientist, founder of modern television B.K. Zvorykin. The son of a Murom merchant, who graduated from the St. Petersburg Technological Institute, after the revolution and civil war was forced to emigrate to the United States, where he worked for more than half a century in major research laboratories. Zvorykin is not only the author of fundamental inventions that made possible the birth of the "miracle of the 20th century" - electronic television, he owns pioneer developments in the field of photomultiplier tubes and electron-optical converters, electron microscopy, and the use of electronics in biology and medicine. For readers interested in the development of world science and technology, as well as the history of the Russian diaspora.