- Rudolf Hell
Rudolf Hell (
December 19 ,1901 –March 11 ,2002 ) [cite web|last = Robat|first = C|title = Rudolf Hell|publisher = The History of Computing Project|date =November 11 ,2007 |url = http://www.thocp.net/biographies/hell_rudolf.htm|accessdate = 2008-05-11] was a Germaninventor . He was born inEggmühl ,Bavaria ,Germany .From 1919 to 1923 he studied
electrical engineering inMunich . 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 thefax . Hell received a patent for the Hellschreiber in 1929.In the year 1929 he founded his own company in Babelsberg,
Berlin . AfterWorld War II he 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 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 Gutenberg Prize awarded by the City ofMainz and theWerner-von-Siemens-Ring .His company was taken over by
Siemens AG in 1981 and merged withLinotype in 1990, becoming "Linotype-Hell AG".Rudolf Hell died in
Kiel , Germany.References
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