Photos of extreme rare TV set from 1934

[old_coot88]

Originally Posted by Tubejunke

...I am sure that plenty of military heads were scratched in wonder of what possible application that television could play from a military standpoint.

Here's the little-known story of one Allied wartime project in which television played a central role. Begins at about the 1:30 mark in the vid...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMHGk...eature=related
The vid then links to Part 5 for continuation...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8cLf...eature=related

Bill(oc)

[Steve D.]

Originally Posted by Tubejunke

Um, sorry, I never implied that Von Braun and his cohorts spent their days designing a futuristic television set at the Peenemunde laboratories as part of Hitler's final solution. However, it is a matter of fact that television was in fact ONE of the things that scientist were working with at those labs. One must consider how new the idea of television was at the time. I am sure that plenty of military heads were scratched in wonder of what possible application that television could play from a military standpoint.

Tubejunke,

Not to get into a political discussion here.
I'm sure you're correct that scientists in Germany were aware of television's future military potential. However the Nazi government was far more interested in promoting the propaganda aspects of this new medium and made that clear during televised broadcasts of the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.

-Steve D.

[yagosaga]

Hello,

this tv set is not in my posession, I did it on behalf of the Kuba museum in Wolfenbuettel, less than ten miles far away from where I live at home:

http://www.kuba-museum.de/hauptseite.html

German television in the Third Reich depends on U.S. patents and television devices. For example, the Zworykin iconoscope and the Farnthworth camera of the Fernseh AG were imported from the U.S., some schematics from England. Therefore, the U.S. Americans got the German white phosphors for their picture tubes, to change from green screens to white screens.

Telefunken had it's own development centers. The Fernseh AG worked for military projects. One project was the viewing bomb, a bomb with a high-resolution camera which could be directed by remote control. The camera and monitoring television systems worked with a 1,000 line television system.

Of course, Nazi television was used for propaganda reasons, but it was not genuine German home grown. The scheduled German television service in 1935 was overhasty with it's low definition 180 line tv standard. But this was only for propagandy reasons too.

Kind regards,
Eckhard

[tritwi]

Wow! This is really a fine piece of german engineering! Telefunken has always been one of my two favorite tv brands. I guess during 70's Kuba had someting to do with Telefunken as I often saw Kuba and Imperial sets of that era having the same chassis as Telefunken sets.