Rudolf Hell
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Inventor, engineer |
Rudolf Hell (19 December 1901 – 11 March 2002)inventor and engineer.
Career
Hell was born in
impact dot matrix printers and faxes
. Hell received a patent for the Hellschreiber in 1929.
In the year 1929 he founded his own company in
Babelsberg. After World War II he re-founded his company in Kiel. 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 marketed in the US as VideoComp by RCA and later by III
.
He has received numerous awards such as the Knight Commander's Cross of the
Eduard Rhein Ring of Honor from the German Eduard Rhein Foundation (1992).[2]
His company was taken over by
Siemens AG in 1981 and merged with Linotype
in 1990, becoming Linotype-Hell AG.
Hellschreiber is still in use today by
Amateur 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
Rudolf Hell died in Kiel on 11 March 2002.
See also
- German inventors and discoverers
References
- ^ Robat, C (11 November 2007). "Rudolf Hell". The History of Computing Project. Retrieved 11 May 2008.
- ^ "The Eduard Rhein Ring of Honor Recipients". Eduard Rhein Foundation. Archived from the original on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 5 February 2011.
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