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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 75,869 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Walter Bruch is the 291st most popular inventor (down from 269th in 2019), the 3,791st most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,247th in 2019) and the 39th most popular German Inventor.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Walter Bruch ranks 291 out of 354. Before him are Wilson Greatbatch, Rowland Hill, Peter Carl Goldmark, Ralph Hartley, Tabitha Babbitt, and John Barnard. After him are Bernard Lown, Almon Brown Strowger, Kálmán Kandó, Joseph Bramah, Harry Ferguson, and Henry M. Leland.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Walter Bruch ranks 223. Before him are Jill Esmond, Don Bradman, Teizo Takeuchi, Jenő Vincze, Gualberto Villarroel, and Kenji Miyamoto. After him are Quentin Crisp, Oddbjørn Hagen, Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling, Alfred Eisenbeisser, Karl Hein, and Artem Alikhanian. Among people deceased in 1990, Walter Bruch ranks 167. Before him are Đorđe Vujadinović, Jill Esmond, Julijans Vaivods, Willy Vandersteen, A. J. P. Taylor, and Bazilio Olara-Okello. After him are Ahti Karjalainen, Boris Paichadze, Ivar Lo-Johansson, Michael Oakeshott, David Stirling, and Mario Pizziolo.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Walter Bruch ranks 3,791 out of 6,142. Before him are Bel Kaufman (1911), Heinz Müller (1924), Maxi Herber (1920), Martha Mödl (1912), Julius Rietz (1812), and Emil Warburg (1846). After him are Johann Nicolaus Bach (1669), Karl-Josef Rauber (1934), Wolfgang Staudte (1906), Alfred Keller (1882), Marie Luise Kaschnitz (1901), and Dora Gerson (1899).

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Among INVENTORS In Germany

Among inventors born in Germany, Walter Bruch ranks 39. Before him are Carl Wilhelm Siemens (1823), Eugen Langen (1833), Fritz von Opel (1899), Ottmar Mergenthaler (1854), Adolf Martens (1850), and Franz Xaver Gabelsberger (1789). After him are Albrecht Berblinger (1770), Karl Jatho (1873), and Andy Bechtolsheim (1955).

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