Why Emmys? Where Did The Emmy Award Get Its Name?

Television engineer Louis McManus used his wife Dorothy to design the Emmy statuette. The award depicts a winged woman holding an atom, the wings representing the muse of art and the atom as the electron of science.

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SOURCES:
Parker, Sandra. "History of the Emmy Statuette". Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

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Still don't get why they thought "Emmy" was more feminine than "Immy" but times were different back then.