Walter Weber (physicist)

Walter Weber (* March 26, 1907 in Gelsenkirchen, † July 18, 1944 in Kościan, County Cost (Wartheland)) was a German pioneer of electromagnetic sound recording.

From 1925 to 1927 he studied at the Oldenburg Academy of Engineering. From 1 May 1928 to 31 December 1930 he was an engineer at the Central Laboratory of Siemens & Halske A.G. in Berlin. Here he met Hans-Joachim von Braunmühl. When he moved to the Laboratory of the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft, he followed him there in 1931. On November 2, 1938, he promoted the work The Sound Spectrum of Firebottles and Firepumps with a contribution on applications in the field of electroacoustics.

On April 18, 1940 (again) they invented the HF bias (HFVM). On June 10, they performed their HF magnetophone at the Ufa Palace at the Zoo in Berlin. Edit source text Weblinks Edit sourcetext

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