Eduard Schüller (engineer)

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Eduard Schüller (born January 13, 1904 in Liegnitz ( Silesia ), † May 19, 1976 in Wedel ) was a German engineer . He played a decisive role in the development of the tape recorder and the video recorder .

Beginnings

Eduard Schüller was born as the son of Alfred Schüller (President of the Oberpostdirektion Oldenburg) in Liegnitz / Silesia (now Legnica / Poland), which gave him early contact with telecommunications technology . After high school, he initially trained as a mechanic at the Mix & Genest telephone factory in Berlin-Charlottenburg, before studying electrical engineering at the TH Charlottenburg . The topic of his diploma thesis was already magnetic sound recording . Thereupon Schüller initially took a position at the Norddeutsche Seekabelwerke in Nordenham , in 1932 he moved to the Heinrich Hertz Institute of the TH in Berlin.

At AEG

As early as 1932 he was brought to the AEG and there met Fritz Pfleumer (1881–1945), the inventor of the paper tape. From August onwards he worked on the further development of the belt in collaboration with BASF ; AEG was researching a tape recorder and BASF developed an improved plastic-based tape for this purpose. Schüller developed the modern tape head, his first patent, which was registered in December 1933 under the title magnetization head for longitudinal magnetization of magnetogram carriers . At the radio exhibition in August 1935, AEG was able to present its first functioning tape recorder, the AEG Magnetophon K1 - a suitcase device that was large and heavy for the time, but already portable. The dismantling of the Magnetophon factory after the end of the Second World War in 1945 ended all activities.

In Hamburg

Schüller then settled in Hamburg, where new AEG production facilities had emerged. After handing over the serial production of tape recorders to Telefunken , he devoted himself to the recording of television signals , so in 1953 his best-known patent was created: a device for magnetic recording and playback of television images , which describes helical track recording . So it is for video recorders and later also z. B. for DAT recorders possible to better utilize the area of ​​the tape by writing one track at an angle to the other. From 1962 Schüller worked on the development of the image plate .

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SURNAME Schüller, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer, developer of the tape recorder and video recorder
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Liegnitz , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1976
Place of death frond