Telefunken
Telefunken is a company of German radio-television founded the May 27th 1903. It was in the beginning a Joint undertaking between AEG and Siemens until Siemens withdraws in 1941. In 1911 Kaiser Wilhelm sent engineers de Telefunken to West Sayville, Long Island and with New York to set up three 180 height meters radio operator turns. Nikola Tesla attended construction. A similar installation was built with Nauen thus carrying out the only means of wireless telecommunications between the North America and the Europe. In 1967, the company amalgamated with AEG which then took the name of AEG-Telefunken. When AEG was repurchased by DaimlerChrysler in 1985, the name of the group is become again AEG. The trade mark Telefunken is however always used by DaimlerChrysler.
In 2005, TELEFUNKEN SenderSysteme Berlin AG changed its company name into Transradio SenderSysteme Berlin AG. The name Transradio goes back to 1918, when TELEFUNKEN has creates the subsidiary company Transradio. One year later in 1919, TRANSRADIO entered the history by introducing the Transmission duplexed. Transradio is specialized in the research, the development and the design of systems of emission AM, VHF/FM and DRM and proposes with its customers solutions to measures.
External bond
- Official site
- Telefunken
- historical Transradio
- Document on the history of Transradio