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He was born in Eggmühl , Bavaria, Germany.

From 1919 to 1923 he studied electrical engineering in Munich. He worked there from 1923 to 1929 as assistant of Prof. Max Dieckmann, with whom he operated a television station at the Verkehrsausstellung (lit.: Traffic exhibition) in Munich in 1925. In the same year Hell invented an apparatus called the Hellschreiber, an early forerunner to the fax. Hell received a patent for the Hellschreiber in 1929.

In the year 1929 he founded his own company in Babelsberg , BerlinBerlin [ bɛrˈliːn ] is the national capital of Germany and its largest city, with 3,387,404 inhabitants (as of September 2004); down from 4. 5 million before World War II. Berlin is located on the rivers Spree and Havel in the northea. After World War IIWorld War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the world's nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. The war was fough he re-founded his company in KielThis article is about the city in Germany. There is also Kiel, Wisconsin in the United States of America. Kiel [kiːl], with a population 233,795, (113,274 male, 120,521 female) is a city in northern Germany, capital of the Schleswig-Holstein Bundes. He kept on working as engineer and invented machines for electronically controlled engraving of printing plates and an electronically photo lettering system called digiset.

He has received numerous awards such as the Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, the GutenbergJohannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg (circa 1398 February 3, 1468), a German metal-worker and inventor, achieved fame for his contributions to the technology of printing during about the 1450s, including a type metal alloy and oil-based inks, a mo Prize awarded by the City of MainzMainz (French Mayence is a city in Germany, which is the capital of the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Introduction Mainz is located on the left bank of the river Rhine, opposite the confluence of the Main river with the Rhine. Population ( and the Werner von Siemens Ring.

His company was taken over by Siemens AG in 1981 and merged with Linotype in 1990, becoming Linotype-Hell AG.

He died in Kiel, Germany.