Fascinating, many thanks for sharing. Andy.
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Pete Kemp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Interested in Hellschreiber History? While exploring eBay I found > the following item being offered for sale. I am NOT connected with > this sale in any way. > 73, > Pete, KZ1Z > FH# 8: > > ----------------------- > > 1927 Picture Transmission Fax Invention, Rudolf Hell > > Item number: 150230791145 > > --------------- > > Bildfunk > (Picture Transmission) > Anleitung zum Selbstbau eines Bildempfaengers > (Guide for Building Picture Receivers) > > by > > Rudolf Hell > > Die Radio-Reihe/Band 21 > > Schmidt, Berlin, 1927. In German. > Black hard covers with white lettering, octavo, 114 pages, 80 b&w > photographs, schematic diagrams and illustrations > > Very scarce book by the prominent German engineer and inventor of the > first facsimile transmission apparatus as well as many other > inventions in radio technology and other fields. This book describes > his invention of the Hellschreiber. > > Rudolf Hell developed technology that led to the fax and the color scanner. > > Hell's landmark invention was a machine for transmitting text that > electronically broke up letters into a stream of dots reassembled at > the receiving end, in effect the first telefax. > > The commercial success of his 1929 "Hell Recorder" allowed him to > found his own company. > > The technology was less prone to poor reception than telex > transmissions, making Hell's machines popular for news agencies, the > post office and police departments. In the 1920s, he also invented an > image scanning tube for televisions and a radio-beam flight-path > finder that is considered a forerunner of aircraft autopilots.During > World War II in Nazi Germany, Hell worked on encoding machines. After > the wartime destruction, he resumed business in 1947 and came up with > inventions that revolutionized the graphic arts. > > An electronically controlled engraver unveiled in 1954 made photo > publishing easier for newspapers, and an early version of the color > scanner followed in 1963. Hell also was a pioneer of electronic > digital typesetting in the 1960s, which ushered out the traditional > method using lead. > > Hell sold his Kiel-based company in 1981 to German industrial giant > Siemens. It was later merged with Linotype AG to become Linotype-Hell > AG, which in turn was taken over by German printing press maker > Heidelberger Druckmaschinen in 1996. > > Rudolf Hell (December 19, 1901 March 11, 2002) was a German inventor. > > He was born in Eggm??hl, Bavaria, Germany.From 1919 to 1923 he > studied electrical engineering in Munich. He worked there from 1923 > to 1929 as assistant of Prof. Max Dieckmann, with whom he operated a > television station at the Verkehrsausstellung (lit.: Traffic > exhibition) in Munich in 1925. In the same year Hell invented an > apparatus called the Hellschreiber, an early forerunner to the fax. > Hell received a patent for the Hellschreiber in 1929. > > In the year 1929 he founded his own company in Babelsberg, Berlin. > After World War II he re-founded his company in Kiel. He kept on > working as an engineer and invented machines for electronically > controlled engraving of printing plates and an electronic photo > typesetting system called digiset. > > He has received numerous awards such as the Knight Commander's Cross > of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, the > Gutenberg Prize awarded by the City of Mainz and the Werner von Siemens > Ring. > > His company was taken over by Siemens AG in 1981 and merged with > Linotype in 1990, becoming Linotype-Hell AG.He died in Kiel, Germany. > (Wikipedia)Condition: Good+ (Covers have minor shelfwear. Title page > has name and date in pencil, triangular piece cut from the lower > corner. Foreword page has creases and repair at gutter margin (with > no loss of text). Text and illustrations are otherwise intact and > clean. Binding is tight.) > > -- Andy K3UK www.obriensweb.com (QSL via N2RJ)
