Biography:Walter Bruch
Walter Bruch | |
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| Born | 2 March 1908 Neustadt an der Weinstraße, Germany |
| Died | 5 May 1990 (aged 82) Hanover, Germany |
| Occupation | Electrical engineer |
Walter Bruch (2 March 1908 – 5 May 1990) was a German electrical engineer and pioneer of German television. He was the inventor of Closed-circuit television.[1] He invented the PAL colour television system at Telefunken in the early 1960s.[2] In addition to his research activities Walter Bruch was an honorary lecturer at Hannover Technical University. He was awarded the Werner von Siemens Ring in 1975.[3]
Biography
He was born in Neustadt an der Weinstraße in the German Empire. At his father's request he attended a business school, but then trained as a machinist apprenticeship in a shoe factory. From 1928 he attended the university of applied science Hochschule Mittweida in Saxony. After that, he was a guest student at the Technical University of Berlin, where he met Manfred von Ardenne and the Hungarian inventor Dénes von Mihály.
From the early 1930s Bruch was involved in the development of television technology: in 1933 he presented a "people's television receiver" with a self-built telecine. In 1935 he started work as a technician in the Television and Physics research Department of Telefunken which was headed by Professor Fritz Schröter (de) and where Emil Mechau (de) developed a special television camera for the 1936 Summer Olympics. The Summer Olympic Games of 1936 in Berlin became a milestone for audiovisual technology and Bruch was able to field test the first Iconoscope camera, developed by Emil Mechau based on a tube by Walter Heimann (de).Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag He died in Hanover, aged 82.
Awards
- 1967: Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany; Knight Commander's Cross with star
- 1968: Goldene Kamera 1967 (Golden Camera 1967)
- 1973: Culture Award, German Society for Photography
- 1975: Werner von Siemens Ring
- 1979: Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria; Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold
- 1982: Niedersächsischer Staatspreis (Lower Saxony State Prize), for Science
- 1986: Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
References
- ↑ Bradford, Lowell (27 August 2019). "A History of CCTV Technology: How Surveillance Technology Has Evolved". https://www.surveillance-video.com/blog/a-history-of-cctv-technology-how-video-surveillance-technology-has-evolved.html/. Retrieved 6 July 2021. "Walter Bruch, a man who invented Closed-circuit television for the purposes of learning about weapons, not people."
- ↑ "Walter Bruch and the PAL Color Television System". 2 March 2020. http://scihi.org/walter-bruch/. "In 1963, when he gave a public presentation of the Phase Alternation Line to a group of experts from the European Broadcasting Union in Hannover"
- ↑ "Walter Bruch; PAL Television". 7 December 2019. https://www.radios-tv.co.uk/walter-bruch-pal-television/. "In 1950s, when Telefunken commissioned Bruch to invent an automated differential phase correction for color television. That's why he was awarded."
- Moralejo, Manuel; Edelmiro Pascual (1975) (in es). La electrónica. Barcelona: Salvat. ISBN 84-345-7458-6.
External links
- 45 Years Anniversary of Walter Bruch's PAL Color Television
- Hochschule Mittweida: Walter Bruch (in German)
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