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 (AEG) .
Prior to World War I the company set up the first world wide network of communications and was the first in the world to sell electronic televisions with cathode ray tubes, in Germany in 1934.
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
Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft AG was a German producer of electrical equipment. It was founded in 1883 by Emil Rathenau as the Deutsche Edison-Gesellschaft für angewandte Elektricität in Berlin.
AEG first headquarters
Founder Emil Rathenau
Share of the Deutsche Edison-Gesellschaft für angewandte Elektricität, issued 20 May 1883
Artificial electrically powered waterfall at the International Electro-Technical Exhibition – 1891