Telefunken
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Telefunken was a German radio and television producer, founded in Berlin in 1903 as a joint venture between Siemens & Halske and the Allgemeine Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft. Prior to World War I, the co
Telefunken REN 904. A vacuum tube from 1930, used in early German radios.
Telefunken alarm clock from c. 1995, designed by Philippe Starck
A Telefunken RC 881 cassette, CD player, and radio
Telefunken electric kettle from 2011
Nauen Transmitter Station
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Nauen Transmitter Station in Nauen, Havelland district, Brandenburg, Germany, is the oldest continuously operating radio transmitting installation in the world. Germany's first high power radio transm
Preserved Nauen transmitter building designed by Herman Muthesius, dating from 1920
Original 25 kW spark-gap transmitter built 1906, showing large 400 μF Leyden jar capacitor bank (rear) and vertical spark gaps (right)
Umbrella antenna of transmitter
100 kW quenched spark transmitter installed in 1913, said to be the most powerful transmitter in the world at the time.