In his employment there, he built the two 30-line television receivers that the Hungarian engineer Dénes Mihály demonstrated at the 1928 Berlin Radio Exhibition.
[1] The IET's archivist, Jon Cable, looked into his files, Coincidentally, they had been declassified by the National Archives on 30 December 2014, 31 years early from its 100-year classification.
Scophony was a startup company using the patents of G. W. Walton, who worked with Wikkenhauser's technical ability and character; encouraging him to move to England and further his career.
Wikkenhauser's systems projected a high definition image upon a screen using mirrors fixed on rapidly rotating drums; the process of their manufacture was hailed as truly innovative.
His wife Aranka grew tired of life in Great Britain after six months, and wanted her husband to give up his work and return to Hungary with her.
G. W. Walton, now technical advisor and a director of Scophony Ltd, wrote that Wikkenhauser's service had been: wholly satisfactory, and he has become genuinely attached to this country, and has acquired the same mental outlook or mode of living as people in this countryWilliam H Field, a good friend of Wikkenhauser, found him to be: Both honest and straightforward in every respect.
His sympathies and outlook are British in character and his concern is for the country of his adoptionBut the Aliens Department of the Home Office found these backings "lukewarm" and not "cogent"; it was "highly undesirable" to grant the "privilege".
Wikkenhauser then was involved in the radar display information, and made improvements in the dark-trace cathode ray tubes knows as skiatons, some 25,000 of which had been produced in the war for use in fighter control rooms.
Judkins says: He moved on to develop the technology of the transfer to film of radar cathode-ray tube displays, the rapid processing of the film, and its cinema projection.Scophony may have secured its work with the Air Ministry through the company chairman, Maurice Bonham-Carter, who was also a director of Frank Whittle's firm, Power Jets.
The Home Office is not granting in wartime the privilege of naturalisation unless a Government Department makes a recommendation in favour of the person concerned.
In 1947, he left Scophony to work for Kelvin Hughes and became internationally recognised for his investigations in nautical scientific instruments, bringing his knowledge to help with marine radar and echo sounding.