The most wanted German E1 was sold
 

The most wanted prewar tv set here in Germany, the Fernseh- Einheitsempfanger E1, the only set which is complete and in working condition was sold today. The previous owner, Mr. August P. N ehrig in Celle, Germany, passed away in the last winter. His son has sold now the E1 to the German Museum of Technics in Berlin.
I was in personal communication with Mr. Nehri g senior and he allowed me to open the E1 and to take a lot of photos of it. Now the E1 will be stored behind glas and no private person would be able to study this famous piece of German television history in freedom by himself. Here is the last photo I made of it on saturday before ten days.

Wow, that's pretty neat. Glad you were able to get photos.

Anthony

Oh, I have to tell that I didn't saw this set alone. Steve Kissinger, also an AK member, was one of the people with me in Celle too. He has taken some photos too.

Nice looking set!
Is the tube really rectangular or is it a round tube masked off to looks that way?

It is the only prewar rectangular tube set. I personally think it's a shame none of the private collectors with deep pockets wanted it badly enough. The asking price was $50,000 a couple years ago. A fortune, but not out of line for a set of its historical significance--and rarity. Then there's the purported working condition of the set. From what I heard it produces a raster, but the "screen caps" you may have seen from this set were photoshopped. There was no Aurora converter to provide a 441 line/25 frame source at the time those pics appeared. Now it'll probably never show a picture again for reals. :(

Wow !! That's REALLY sumthin'-and it is a cryin' shame it likely won't ever "live" again.-Sandy G.

Oh you never know, they might rip the guts out of it and stick a color set inside it :D :cry:

Oh, Dear God....<grimace>-Sandy G.

We bid on it for the Early Television Museum, but the seller wanted to keep it in Germany.

I really want it badly.....my fish need a new home :naughty: :thmbsp: :lmao:

Anthony

The picture tube is really rectangular, it was the first one in the world. Pictures of the tube from the inside of the set are on my web page about the E1.
http://bs.cyty.com/menschen/e-etzold...efunken/e1.htm
These photos I could taken last year, when the previous owner, Mr. Ne hrig was still alive. He told me the whole story of this set: In 1980 he got a telefone call from Berlin, somebody unknown pointed him to the flea market at Berlin Nollendorfplatz. Here he got this E1 for aprr. 15,000 deutsch marks. He had built up a museum and would open it to the public. But there was much trouble with the authorities (taxes, fees and so on). So the exhibition was closed to the public, but single persons with interest are able to see it. When I heard about an existing E1 in my region here I contacted him at once and I got the permission to publish the photos in the web.
In 1985 the E1 was switched on the last time. Here is a copy of the photo with the E1 in operating mode:
http://bs.cyty.com/menschen/e-etzold...g/e1raster.JPG

That is one cool tv. I was looking at the map for it and didn't see a cap over 30 uf.
Not even in the power supply. Do any of you guys see any?? What awesome electronics

Here is more about this TV, including a schematic:

http://www.earlytelevision.org/e1.html

The E1 has a low power consumption. See the vertical and horizontal output tubes, the anode resistors are 2M and 200 K while the screen grid is connected to the transformer and the yoke directly.
Here are the schematics in a large picture format:
http://bs.cyty.com/menschen/e-etzold...en/img/e-1.jpg
Total power consumption was 185 watts.

Someone skillful in cabinet building could, with the use of a small portable B&W TV set, build an operating reproduction. Of course the internal guts would look all wrong... Next level is to build a technological equivalent with similar tubes and circuits.