- Gustav Tauschek
Gustav Tauschek (
April 29 ,1899 ,Vienna ,Austria –February 14 ,1945 ,Zürich ,Switzerland ) was an austrian pioneer ofInformation technology and developed numerous improvements for punchcard-based calculating machines from 1922 to 1945.Biography
During the years 1926 – 1930 he worked for the
Rheinische Metallwaren- und Maschinenfabrik (Rheinmetall ) inSömmerda ,Germany , where he developed a complete punchcard-based accounting system, which was never mass-produced. The prototype of that system is currently stored in the archives of the Vienna Technical Museum. In the spring of 1928,Rheinmetall created a subsidiary company that was assigned to develop new punchcard-based machines. In the fall of the same year, the subsidiary was bought byIBM , thereby assuring its monopoly on the market. Tauschek was awarded a five-year contract and sold 169 patents toIBM in his life-time.Gustav Tauschek died of an embolism on
February 14 ,1945 in a hospital inZürich ,Switzerland .Literature
Martin Helfert, Petra Mazuran, Christoph M. Wintersteiger: "Gustav Tauschek und seine Maschinen", Linz: Trauner, 2007, in German. (Schriftenreihe Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und der Technik; Bd. 10) ISBN 978-3-85499-062-8
Martin Helfert, Christoph M. Wintersteiger: "Gustav Tauschek's Punchcard Accounting Machines", Proceedings of the Workshop on Methodic and Didactic Challenges of the History of Informatics (MEDICHI 2007), OCG 220, Austrian Computer Society, 2007.
External links
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* [http://www.oegig.at ÖGIG Startseite ] at www.oegig.at Austrian Society for History of Informatics
* [http://www.tmw.at Technisches Museum Wien ] at www.tmw.at Vienna Technical MuseumPersondata
NAME= Tauschek, Gustave
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=
SHORT DESCRIPTION= informatician,inventor ,engineer
DATE OF BIRTH= birth date|1899|4|29|mf=y
PLACE OF BIRTH=Vienna, Austria
DATE OF DEATH= death date|1949|2|14|mf=y
PLACE OF DEATH=Zürich, Switzerland
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