Higinbotham thought he could better capture visitors’ interest by creating an interactive demonstration. Most of the existing exhibits were rather dull. Higinbotham was responsible for creating an exhibit to show off the instrumentation division’s work. He served as head of that group from 1951 to 1968.ĭuring that time, in October Brookhaven held annual visitors’ days, during which thousands of people would come tour the lab. In 1948 he joined Brookhaven National Laboratory’s instrumentation group. In 1943 he moved to Los Alamos to work on electronics for a timing system for the atomic bomb.
In 1941, he joined the MIT Radiation Lab, where he worked on cathode ray tube displays for radar systems. At Cornell as a graduate student he worked as an electronics technician.
He graduated from Williams College in 1932, and then went to graduate school in physics at Cornell University. Higinbotham was born on Octoin Bridgeport, CT and grew up in Caledonia, NY. It was a very simple tennis game, similar to the classic 1970s video game Pong, and it was quite a hit at a Brookhaven National Laboratory open house. In October 1958, Physicist William Higinbotham created what is thought to be the first video game. October 1958: Physicist Invents First Video Game
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