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Rudolf Hell(19 December 1901 – 11 March 2002)[1]was a Germaninventorandengineer.
Rudolf Hell | |
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 Hell (centre) in 1968 | |
| Born | 19 December 1901 Eggmühl,Germany |
| Died | 11 March 2002(aged 100) Kiel,Germany |
| Occupation(s) | Inventor,engineer |
Career
editHell was born inEggmühl.From 1919 to 1923, he studiedelectrical engineeringinMunich.He worked there from 1923 to 1929 as assistant of Prof. Max Dieckmann, with whom he operated a television station at theVerkehrsausstellung(lit.: "traffic exhibition" ) in Munich in 1925. In the same year Hell invented an apparatus called theHellschreiber,an early forerunner toimpact dot matrix printersandfaxes.Hell received a patent for the Hellschreiber in 1929.
In the year 1929 he founded his own company inBabelsberg.AfterWorld War IIhe re-founded his company inKiel.He kept on working as an engineer and invented machines for electronically controlled engraving of printing plates and an electronic photo typesetting system calleddigisetmarketed in the US asVideoCompbyRCAand later byIII.
He has received numerous awards such as the Knight Commander's Cross of theOrder of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany,theGutenberg Prize of the International Gutenberg Society and the City of Mainz,theWerner von Siemens Ringand theEduard Rhein Ring of Honorfrom the GermanEduard Rhein Foundation(1992).[2]
His company was taken over bySiemens AGin 1981 and merged withLinotypein 1990, becomingLinotype-Hell AG.
Hellschreiber is still in use today byamateur radio(ham) operators around the world. Hellverein Kiel collects Hell devices and keeps them functional. In addition, the website contains numerous documents and patents relating to the Hell devices:https://www.hell-kiel.de/en/
Death
editRudolf Hell died inKielon 11 March 2002.
See also
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References
edit- ^Robat, C (11 November 2007)."Rudolf Hell".The History of Computing Project.Retrieved11 May2008.
- ^"The Eduard Rhein Ring of Honor Recipients".Eduard Rhein Foundation.Archived fromthe originalon 18 July 2011.Retrieved5 February2011.
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