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IFA Berlin

Trade exhibition in Germany

Summary

Trade exhibition in Germany

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caption	Southern entrance to Berlin's fair ground during the IFA 2018
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genre	Consumer electronics
date	1924
begins	1924
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founder_name	Messe Berlin GmbH
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The IFA ( ), or Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin (International radio exhibition Berlin, a.k.a. 'Berlin Radio Show'), is one of the oldest industrial exhibitions in Germany. Between 1924 and 1939 it was an annual event, but from 1950 it was held every other year until 2005. Since then it has become an annual event again, held in September. Today it is one of the world's leading trade shows for consumer electronics and home appliances.

It offers the opportunity to exhibitors to present their latest products and developments to the general public. As a result of daily reporting in almost all the German media, the radio exhibition and the showcased technology receives a large amount of attention around the globe. In the course of its history, many world innovations were first seen at the exhibition.

IFA is "Europe's biggest tech show". 245,000 visitors and 1,645 exhibitors attended IFA 2015.

History

German physicist and inventor Manfred von Ardenne gave the world's first public demonstration of a fully electronic television system using a cathode-ray tube for both transmission (using flying-spot image scans, not a camera) and reception, at the 1931 show.

In 1933 the Volksempfänger (VE 301 W), a Nazi-sponsored radio receiver design, was introduced. Ordered by Joseph Goebbels, designed by Otto Griessing, sold by Gustav Seibt, it was presented at the tenth Berliner Funkausstellung on 18 August 1933, its price fixed at 76 Reichsmark (RM). 100,000 units were sold during the exhibition.

In 1938 the DKE 38 (Deutscher Kleinempfänger 38, i.e. German miniature receiver 1938) followed, the price fixed at 35 RM.

AEG, founded in 1883 by Emil Rathenau, showed the first practical audio tape recorder, the Magnetophon K1, at the August 1935 show.

In 1939 the exhibition was called Grosse Deutsche Funk- und Fernseh-Ausstellung (Great German Radio and Television Exhibition). The Einheits-Fernseh-Empfänger E1, a TV set designed to be affordable for everybody, was introduced. Plans for large-scale manufacture were thwarted by the outbreak of World War II. Color TV was also introduced (a prototype), based on an invention by Werner Flechsig (cf. shadow mask).

Multinational Dutch electronics corporation Philips introduced the compact audio cassette medium for audio storage and the first cassette recorder (the Philips EL3300), developed by ir. Lou Ottens and his team at the Philips factory in Hasselt, at the 1963 show, on Friday 30 August. Due to global pandemic, IFA Berlin was closed in 2020 and 2021. It was open again on September 2, 2022.

File:Bundesarchiv Bild 102-00877, Berlin, Eröffnung der Funkausstellung.jpg|Main entrance and opening of exhibition in 1924 File:Bundesarchiv Bild 102-00880, Berlin, Eröffnung der Funkausstellung.jpg|Radio shack of the ZR-3 (model) File:Bundesarchiv Bild 102-08307, Berliner Funkausstellung, Riesenlautsprecher.jpg|Presentation of a big speaker in 1929

Gallery

IFA 2010 Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin 04.JPG|Philips booth (IFA 2010) IFA Berlin 2016 (29300127472).jpg|Bosch booth (IFA 2016) LG, IFA 2018, Berlin ( 1070254).jpg|LG booth (IFA 2018)

Notes

References

(November 1989). "Gramophone, Issue November 1989". Gramophone.
Staff, Verge. (7 September 2015). "IFA 2015: the best of Europe's biggest tech show".
"Mehr Besucher und bessere Geschäfte bei der IFA".
Albert Abramson, ''Zworykin: Pioneer of Television'', University of Illinois Press, 1995, p. 111.
VE=Volksempfänger; 301 = 30 January; W = Wechselstrom (=alternating current))
(1933-08-18). "Goebbel's speech". Calvin.edu.
History Department at the University of San Diego. "Magnetic Recording History Pictures".
(1 September 2006). "1935 AEG Magnetophon Tape Recorder". mixonline.com.
Schellinx, Harold. (23 March 2013). "Mourning and Celebrating 50 years of Compact Cassette". HarSMedia.com.
Rewound. On its 50th birthday, the cassette tape is still rolling. Time Magazine, 12 August 2013, p. 56–57

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