COLOGNE, Germany – The world’s first television set, invented by the Scottish pioneer John Logie Baird in 1925, the first fax machine by the American inventor Otho Fulton the same year and a prototype color television set from the laboratory of PAL-System developer Walter Bruch of Hannover are just three of the highlights in Auction Team Breker’s sale of Milestones of Telecommunication on April 18. LiveAuctioneers.com will provide absentee and Internet live bidding.

Also included in the 500-lot auction are historical telephones, telegraphs, radio receivers and unique valves (vacuum tubes) such as the only known original Braun’s cathode ray tube of 1900, the grandfather of all TV valves.

Walter Bruch developed this prototype PAL-system experimental color televison in 1967. The rare display item has a 4,000-7,000 euros estimate.

Of particular note is a German Enigma machine of 1939, the fiendishly complex cyphering system capable of producing 22 billion codes through purely mechanical means.

The rare Fultograph, circa 1925, is the world’s first fax machine. A relic of 20th century telecommunications, the device has an estimate of 1,500 to 3,000 euros.

For details email Auction@Breker.com or phone 02236/38 43 40.

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