Dénes Mihály

Dénes Mihály (7 July 1894, Gödöllő – 29 August 1953, West-Berlin) was a Hungarian inventor, engineer.

During his high school studies – at the age of 16 – he published books on automobiles and motorcycles.

His first conception of a television construction in 1919 was called the "Telehor", which was capable of transmitting still pictures over a distance of many kilometers.

In 1935 the Mihály–Traub television set appeared on the market, which he jointly developed with the physicist E. H. Traub.

One of Dénes Mihály's most significant inventions was the "Projectophon", patented in 1922, which received recognition in the field of sound picture.