The IFA (/ˈifɑː/EE-fah) 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 world's leading trade shows for consumer electronics and home appliances.
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Southern entrance to Berlin's fair ground during the IFA 2003
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.[1]
As of 2015[update] IFA is "Europe's biggest tech show".[2] 245,000 visitors and 1,645 exhibitors attended IFA 2015.[3]
German physicist and inventor Manfred von Ardenne gave a public demonstration of a television system using a cathode ray tube for both transmission (using flying-spot image scans, not a camera) and reception, at the 1931 show.[4]
In 1933 the Volksempfänger (VE 301 W),[5] 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,[6] 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.
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.[9][10] Due to global pandemic, IFA Berlin was closed in 2020 and 2021. It was open again on September 2, 2022.
^"Gramophone, Issue November 1989". Gramophone: 206. November 1989. Archived from the original on 24 May 2012. Retrieved 4 August 2010.
^Staff, Verge (7 September 2015). "IFA 2015: the best of Europe's biggest tech show".
^. Archived from the original on 26 September 2015.
^Albert Abramson, Zworykin: Pioneer of Television, University of Illinois Press, 1995, p. 111.
^VE=Volksempfänger; 301 = 30 January; W = Wechselstrom (=alternating current))
^"Goebbel's speech". Calvin.edu. 18 August 1933. Retrieved 13 September 2013.
^History Department at the University of San Diego. . Archived from the original on 20 July 2009.
^. mixonline.com. 1 September 2006. Archived from the original on 8 February 2013. Retrieved 18 June 2010.
^Schellinx, Harold (23 March 2013). . SoundBlog. HarSMedia.com. Archived from the original on 9 October 2013. Retrieved 25 August 2013.
^Rewound. On its 50th birthday, the cassette tape is still rolling. Time Magazine, 12 August 2013, p. 56–57
External linksEdit
Media related to Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin at Wikimedia Commons
IFA official website
Highlights of past exhibitions from 1926 to 2005
August 28, 2023
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