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Herbert Eugene Ives (July 21, 1882, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - November 13, 1953) was a scientist and engineer who headed the development of facsimile and television systems at AT&T in the first half of the twentieth century. Ives studied at the University of Pennsylvania and the Johns Hopkins University, where he graduated in 1908. He wrote a 1920 book on aerial photography, while an Army reserve officer, in the aviation section. Like his father Frederic Eugene Ives, Herbert was an expert on color photography. In 1924 he transmitted and reconstructed the first color facsimile, using color separations. In 1927 he demonstrated 185-line long-distance television, transmitting the image of Herbert Hoover from AT&T's experimental station 3XN in Whippany, New Jersey. In the 1940s, Ives expressed his vigorous opposition to Einstein's theory of relativity. His friend, the noted physicist H. P. Robertson, contributed the following summary of Ives' attitude toward special relativity in a biography of Ives:
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