Walter Weber (engineer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Walter Weber (engineer)

Date of Birth: 26-Mar-1907

Place of Birth: Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Date of Death: 18-Jul-1944

Profession: electrical engineer

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Walter Weber (26 March 1907 in Gelsenkirchen - 18 July 1944 in German-occupied Koscian) 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 AG in Berlin.
There he met Hans-Joachim von Braunmühl.
When he moved to the laboratory of the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft, he followed him there in 1931.
On 2 November 1938, he defended his thesis Das Schallspektrum von Knallfunken und Knallpistolen mit einem Beitrag über Anwendungsmöglichkeiten in der elektroakustischen Meßtechnik.
(The sound spectrum of spark transmitters and oscillators with a contribution on possible applications in electroacoustic measuring technology), OCLC 433195435. On 18 April 1940 the pair re-invented RF bias (HFVM), and on 10 June that year they exhibited their "HF magnetophone" at the Ufa Palace cinema in Berlin.