Walter Bruch

Walter Bruch
Born2 March 1908
Neustadt an der Weinstraße, Germany
Died5 May 1990(1990-05-05) (aged 82)
Hanover, Germany
OccupationElectrical engineer

Walter Bruch (2 March 1908 – 5 May 1990) was a German electrical engineer and pioneer of German television. He was the inventor of closed-circuit television.[1] He invented the PAL colour television system at Telefunken in the early 1960s.[2] In addition to his research activities Walter Bruch was an honorary lecturer at Technische Hochschule Hannover. He was awarded the Werner von Siemens Ring in 1975.[3]

  1. ^ Bradford, Lowell (27 August 2019). "A History of CCTV Technology: How Surveillance Technology Has Evolved". Retrieved 6 July 2021. Walter Bruch, a man who invented Closed-circuit television for the purposes of learning about weapons, not people.
  2. ^ "Walter Bruch and the PAL Color Television System". 2 March 2020. Retrieved 6 July 2021. In 1963, when he gave a public presentation of the Phase Alternation Line to a group of experts from the European Broadcasting Union in Hannover
  3. ^ "Walter Bruch; PAL Television". 7 December 2019. Retrieved 14 July 2021. In 1950s, when Telefunken commissioned Bruch to invent an automated differential phase correction for color television. That's why he was awarded.