Guillermo González Camarena was born on February 17, 1917, in Guadalajara, Mexico. From a young age, Guillermo had a love for constructing electronics and devices; at 12 years old, he built his first amateur transmitter, and at 17, he built his own television camera.
By 1942, Guillermo had developed and patented the first adaptor for television equipment to produce a colored image. He then began to work to be the first to bring the first color television system to Mexico; however, John Logie Baird in 1944 beat him to it in 1944 when he demonstrated the first electronic color television.
Despite not being the first to the color television system, on January 21st 1963, with Guillermo’s help, Channel 5 broadcast the first color image in Mexican television history, using his own color system. Guillermo dedicated his work to using television for educational purposes, creating many educational programs, , including one on basic first aid, earning him the highest civilian order in Mexico, the Order of the Aztec Eagle. Guillermo tragically died in a plane crash, not knowing that in 1979 his color television system would be used to convert images of Jupiter to color pictures
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