David Lachenbruch (1921 – November 3, 1996) was an American journalist and an editor of ''
Television Digest''. He previously worked at ''
The Gazette and Daily
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''. He was born in 1921 in
New Rochelle, New York
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, and died in 1996 in
Manhattan
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at age 75. In 2000, he was inducted into the
Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame
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by the
Consumer Technology Association
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Trade shows
CES
C ...
, which credited him with coining the words ''
camcorder
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'' and
''consumer electronics''.
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1921 births
1996 deaths
Journalists from New York (state)