William Erwin Antony was an electrical engineer and pioneer in radio

Radio

Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...

 and television

Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

 transmission.

History

He founded and/or was the engineer for 25 radio stations in the Shreveport, Louisiana

Louisiana

Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans. Louisiana is the only state in the U.S. with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are local governments equivalent to counties...

 area. These include KWKH

KWKH

KWKH is a classic country music radio station serving Shreveport, Louisiana. The 50-kilowatt station broadcasts at 1130 kHz. Formerly owned by Clear Channel Communications and Gap Central Broadcasting, it is now owned by Townsquare Media....

, WAAG

KWKH

KWKH is a classic country music radio station serving Shreveport, Louisiana. The 50-kilowatt station broadcasts at 1130 kHz. Formerly owned by Clear Channel Communications and Gap Central Broadcasting, it is now owned by Townsquare Media....

, WGAQ, KGDX, WMAU, KFHF, KGGH, KTSL

KTSL

KTSL is a radio station broadcasting a contemporary Christian format. Licensed to Medical Lake, Washington, USA, the station serves the Spokane area. The station is currently owned by EMF Broadcasting.-History:...

, KWEA and even early experimental stations like 4CK and 5ZS.

He built the actual transmitter and antenna (the Telsine) for very first TV station in the southern United States. The picture and the audio channels were licensed separately as W9XX and W5XA respectively. The first image he transmitted was a still picture of cartoon character Krazy Kat

Krazy Kat

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.

Later, he helped create the radio detonators used for the atomic bombs that went off over Hiroshima

Hiroshima

is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chūgoku region of western Honshu, the largest island of Japan. It became best known as the first city in history to be destroyed by a nuclear weapon when the United States Army Air Forces dropped an atomic bomb on it at 8:15 A.M...

 and Nagasaki. He died in 1964.