1 At 16, he enrolled in a high school physics class and quickly discovered that he had a natural affinity for it. William's interest in science emerged at the age of 14, when he began constructing and dismantling radios in an effort to pick up the frequency transmissions of the first commercial radio stations. His father was the minister of several churches in New York before settling at the "White Church," or First Presbyterian Church in Caledonia, a small town located southwest of Rochester. and Dorothea Higinbothamon 25 October 1910. William (Willy) Alfred Higinbotham was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, to the Reverend Robert G.
A passionate advocate of nuclear nonproliferation, he worked tirelessly to educate government officials and the public about adapting atomic energy for peaceful purposes and implementing safeguards on weapons of mass destruction. The following year, he helped found the Federation of Atomic (later, American) Scientists. Recruited from MIT in 1945 to work on the Manhattan Project, he developed the timing circuits for the first atomic bomb and witnessed the test detonation in Alamogordo, New Mexico. It was also the first game to be played by the general public-in this instance, attendees of a visitors day at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in 1958.įor Higinbotham, this was just an isolated incident in a distinguished career as a physicist and electronics expert that also encompassed spells at Cornell University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Los Alamos National Laboratory.
GAME TENNIS FOR TWO MANUAL
William Alfred Higinbotham (Courtesy of Brookhaven National Laboratory)Īfter reading an instruction manual that accompanied a Systron-Donner analog computer, William Alfred Higinbotham was inspired to design Tennis for Two, the first computer game to display motion and allow interactive control with handheld controllers.
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