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Gustav Wikkenhauser | |
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Wikkenhauser Gustav | |
| Born | 1901[1] Budapest, Hungary[1] |
| Died | 1974 (aged 72–73)[1] Essex, England[1] |
Gustav Wikkenhauser (1901–1974)[1] was a Hungarian engineer, naturalized as a British citizen in 1941.
In 1932 he moved from Hungary to England to work on mechanical television, working for Scophony.
Wikkenhauser was born in 1901 in Budapest, Hungary. When twenty-six years old, he graduated from the University of Budapest in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. He graduated in 1926, and was employed by Allgemeine Elektrizitats-Gesellschaft AG in Germany. He relocated to Berlin. In his employment there, he built the two 30-line television receivers that the Hungarian engineer Dénes Mihály demonstrated at the 1928 Berlin Radio Exhibition.
He was a pioneer of television in the 1930s, but his work has remained largely unknown because of a "classification" on his National Archives file by the British. He obtained British citizenship shortly after the German invasion of Hungary in World War II, after having failed with a "lukewarm" recommendation from his superiors before the war.[2]
The IET's archivist, Jon Cable, looked into his files, Coincidentally, they had been declassified by the National Archives on 30 December 2014, 31 years early from its 100-year classification.
Wikkenhauser took up a position in Mihály's Telehor Television Company at its start in 1929. He met there GW Walton, a fellow inventor. In the same year, he married a Hungarian woman called Aranka – her maiden name is unknown.
- ^ a b c d e This is in a source I read but need to tie it up
- ^ Northfield, Rebecca (February 2015). "Remembering the Engineer". E&T. IET: 67–71. Archived from the original on 30 June 2015. Retrieved 20 February 2015.