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DrZarkov wrote:Thank you very much, I've read the first booklet before. It is a very interesting lecture. Von Mihaly was very close to a solution for his problems, but it was Baird who solved it: Radio valves were too slow to amplify the television pictures, they needed a signal in a much higher frequency. As we talked about this item in another thread, Baird just used a slotted disk to divide the lightbeam into a pseudo- HF.
Von Mihalys scanners were much more advanced than a Nipkow-disk, theoretically they would work in HD, but also much more difficult to make and therefore much more expensive. But together Baird and von Mihaly were a great team.
DrZarkov wrote:Yes, they did meet. They've founded a joint venture, called the "Fernseh AG" (Together with some other companies.) His first commercial TV-set, the "Telehor" with 30 lines was indeed technically very similar to the Baird Televisor. I've bought a book in Belgium (in Dutch) whitch describes the Telehor very precise. The similarities are quite obvious.
When I'll find a little bit of time, I will scan some pictures and put the information together for evene, who wants to make a replica or at least a "look-alike".
DrZarkov wrote:I've never heard about a commercial set using the Mihaly mirror sets. The first commercial set used a Nipkow-disc. (The "Prof. Karolus set" from Telefunken using the mirror drum was never on the market.) After the first sold sets (interestingly most of them to Belgium and the Netherlands) the Telehor company fusioned with TeKaDe, where after further Nipkow-disc sets the famous mirror-screw sets were made. Parallel the development of the CRT made great progress, so that mechanical television became obsolete quite fast.
Harry Dalek wrote:He worked a fair bit on vibrating mirrors rotating mirrors same go's with Baird it must of been so disappointing to know all that work was obsolete so soon .
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