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Walter Bruch

1908 - 1990

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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. He invented the PAL colour television system at Telefunken in the early 1960s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter Bruch has received more than 83,216 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Walter Bruch is the 316th most popular inventor (down from 291st in 2019), the 4,414th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,782nd in 2019) and the 40th most popular German Inventor.

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.11

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  • 1.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Walter Bruch ranks 316 out of 426. Before him are Jack Northrop, Wilson Greatbatch, Joseph Engelberger, Roland Moreno, Peter Carl Goldmark, and Ernst Alexanderson. After him are Heinrich Gerber, Thomas Wedgwood, Victor Hasselblad, Kálmán Kandó, Tabitha Babbitt, and Patricia Bath.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Walter Bruch ranks 257. Before him are Vladimir Kotelnikov, Boris Rybakov, Sonja Graf, Helmut Käutner, Aleksei Arbuzov, and Demetrio Neyra. After him are Luis de Souza Ferreira, Alfred Eisenbeisser, Birgit Cullberg, Marina Ladynina, Percy Williams, and Ludwig Goldbrunner. Among people deceased in 1990, Walter Bruch ranks 199. Before him are Léopold Anoul, Hector Dyer, Nadia Gamal, Ludwig Lachmann, Dries van der Lof, and Karl Aage Hansen. After him are José Luis Panizo, Otto E. Neugebauer, Walter Sedlmayr, Max Bense, Jill Esmond, and Bazilio Olara-Okello.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Walter Bruch ranks 4,414 out of 7,253. Before him are Ludwig Abeille (1761), Ellen Braumüller (1910), Ludwig von Falkenhausen (1844), Friedrich Eduard Beneke (1798), Günter Bernard (1939), and Manfred Krug (1937). After him are Jan Nowak-Jeziorański (1914), Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt (1773), Hilde Domin (1909), Norbert Haug (1952), Fritz Graebner (1877), and Klaus Bonsack (1941).

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Among INVENTORS In Germany

Among inventors born in Germany, Walter Bruch ranks 40. Before him are Eugen Langen (1833), Fritz von Opel (1899), Ricardo Wolf (1887), Adolf Martens (1850), Franz Xaver Gabelsberger (1789), and Wilhelm Bauer (1822). After him are Heinrich Gerber (1832), Didi Senft (1952), Albrecht Berblinger (1770), Andy Bechtolsheim (1955), and Karl Jatho (1873).

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