Hellschreiber is a method of sending text by radio. Each character is sent as an image, pixel by pixel. It was invented in 1929 by Dr. Rudolf Hell, of Bavaria, Germany.
Each character is encoded as a 7 by 7 matrix of pixels. 150 characters are transmitted per minute. A character takes 400 milliseconds to send. As there are 49 pixels per character, each pixel is 8.163ms long. The effective baud rate is 122.5 baud, and 2.5 characters are sent each second, for an average speed of about 25 WPM.
The following is an example of a received Hellschreiber transmission:
 
Since the transmitting and receiving system may not be precisely in sync, nor transmitting at exactly the same speed, each received line is displayed twice. This way, the text can always be read, even if it slants up or down.
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