# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-t-goldsmith-jr
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:56:04.687Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-t-goldsmith-jr"
name: "Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr."
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description: "Thomas Toliver Goldsmith Jr. was an American television pioneer, the co-inventor of the cathode-ray tube amusement device, and a professor of physics at Furman University."
tagline: "American television pioneer (1910–2009)"
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country:
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category:
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birthDate: "1910-01-09"
deathDate: "2009-03-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump