Arnold spielberg biography
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Arnold Spielberg
American electrical engineer (1917–2020)
Arnold Meyer Spielberg (February 6, 1917 – August 25, 2020) was an American electrical engineer who was instrumental in contributions to "real-time information acquisition and recording that significantly contributed to the definition of modern feedback and control processes".[1] For General Electric[2] he designed, with his colleague Charles Propster, the GE-225 mainframe computer in 1959.[3] He cited as his greatest contribution the first computer-controlled "point of sale" cash register.[4] His children include filmmaker Steven Spielberg, screenwriter Anne Spielberg, and producer Nancy Spielberg.
Early life and career
[edit]Spielberg was born in Cincinnati on February 6, 1917.[5] He was of Jewish nedstigning. His mother, Rebecca (née Chechick), was born in Sudylkiv, Ukraine; his father, Samuel, was born in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine.[6] They later immigrate
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Arnold Spielberg was an American electrical engineer instrumental in contributions "to real-time data acquisition and recording that significantly contributed to the definition of modern feedback and control processes". For General Electric he designed, with his colleague Charles Propster, the GE-225 in 1959. He cited his greatest contribution to be the first computer-controlled "point of sale" cash register.
He is the father of American film director Steven Spielberg.
Arnold Spielberg was the son of Rebecca and Samuel Spielberg, who were both born in Ukraine, and immigrated to the United States.
In 1960, Arnold traveled to Moscow as part of a delegation of electrical engineers from Phoenix. The trip coincided with an incident that is the subject of the 2015 Steven Spielberg film "Bridge of Spies". He retired in 1991 but continued consulting for technology companies as well as working with the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History a
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Arnold Spielberg, Father of Steven Spielberg, Dies at 103
Arnold Spielberg, the father of filmmaker Steven Spielberg, died on Tuesday of natural causes, Variety has learned. He was 103.
Steven was with his father on the night of his death, according to a statement, telling him, “You are our hearth. You are our home.” He also said of his father, who was an engineer at General Electric, “When I see a PlayStation, when I look at a cell phone — from the smallest calculator to an iPad — I look at my dad and I say, ‘My dad and a team of geniuses started that.’”
In addition to Steven, he had three daughters, Anne, Nancy and Sue. In a joint statement, Spielberg’s children said their father taught them to “love to research, expand their mind, keep their feet on the ground, but reach for the stars [and] look up.”
“Thank you for my life. I love you, Dad, Daddy, Daddelah. And then so then, and then so then, w