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Arthur Korn

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Korn was involved in the development of the fax machine, specifically the transmission of photographs or telephotography, known as the Bildetelegraph, related to early attempts at developing a practical mechanical television
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as a light source. On 17 October 1906, he transmitted a photograph of Crown Prince William over a distance of 1800 km.
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Korn experimented and wrote on long-distance photography, the phototelautograph. He pioneered the use of light sensitive
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bank in London was recorded in 1907, as well as the use of the technology by the media, with the French paper
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He also worked on potential theory and the mathematics of physics. He was an Invited Speaker for the
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Eine Theorie der Gravitation und der elektrischen Erscheinungen auf Grundlage der Hydrodynamik
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Dr. Korn, being of Jewish descent, was dismissed from his post in 1935 with the rise of the
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at the age of 15, from where he graduated in 1890. Afterwards, he studied in Berlin,
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Solbert, Oscar N.; Newhall, Beaumont; Card, James G., eds. (September 1953).
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cells which supplanted the function of the stylus, and used a
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Academic staff of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
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He also contributed numerous articles to such journals as
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contracting for a French monopoly that lasted until 1909.
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Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States
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couple, Moritz and Malwine Schottlaender. He attended
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Image, Journal of Photography of George Eastman House
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Arthur Korn (architect)

Breslau
Kingdom of Prussia
Wrocław
Poland
Jersey City, New Jersey
physicist
mathematician
inventor
fax
photographs
telephotography
mechanical television
Jewish
gymnasia
Breslau
Berlin
Leipzig
Paris
London
Würzburg
University of Munich
Technische Universität Berlin
Nazi Party
Stevens Institute of Technology
Hoboken, New Jersey
Jersey City, New Jersey
selenium
Nernst lamp

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