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Baer, Ralph H

LC control no.n 2001020137
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Personal name headingBaer, Ralph H.
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Associated countryUnited States
LocatedBronx (New York, N.Y.)
Birth date19220308
Death date20141206
Place of birthPirmasens (Germany)
Place of deathManchester (N.H.)
Field of activityVideo games Television
Profession or occupationEngineers Inventors
Found inBurnham, Van. Supercade, 2001: t.p. (Ralph H. Baer)
New York times (online), viewed Dec. 8, 2014 (in obituary published Dec. 7: Ralph H. Baer; Ralph Henry Baer; b. Mar. 8, 1922, Pirmasens, Germany; his family emigrated to New York in 1938 to escape Hitler and settled in the Bronx; d. Saturday [Dec. 6, 2014], Manchester, N.H., aged 92; turned television sets into electronic fantasy lands by inventing and patenting the first home video game system)
Associated languageeng