Arnold Spielberg

Arnold Spielberg is 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 cites 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 is 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 and Education, formerly Survivors of the Sho