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Artur Fischer, Inventor with More Patents Than Edison, Dies at 96
- gilgoomesh 11y agoIt's interesting to realize that seemingly commonplace objects had a sole inventor. I've used dozens of drywall anchors in my house that look identical to the one in the picture (albeit a little smaller). And a survivor from the losing side of the Battle of Stalingrad. With respect to both sides, that's a rare membership. > Adolf Hitler paid a surprise Christmas visit in 1939. “I had made a model airplane to give my mother as a Christmas present,” Mr. Fischer told Der Spiegel. “Then my commanding officer said that I was the best mechanic and I should give the plane to Hitler. It was a horrible time.”
- stevep98 11y agoHe also came up with FischerTechnik, which is a superb building-block system far sturdier than Lego. http://www.fischertechnik.de/en/Home.aspx http://www.fischertechnik.de/en/Home.aspx Had a lot of fun with this in my childhood.
- lispm 11y agoIn school, when I was 9 years old long ago, we had something like these: http://www.schule-trifft-technik.de/product_info.php/cPath/952/products_id/3158 http://www.schule-trifft-technik.de/product_info.php/cPath/9... A class set of a basic Fischertechnik mechanics box. We had a weekly course where we were building various things. The hardest part was to get everything back in the box where it belongs... Fischer wanted to get kids interested into actually building technical things, as a foundation for the next generation of engineers.
- Freak_NL 11y agoA classic example of Germany's Wirtschaftswunder. Today you would be hard pressed to find a home where his company's wall plugs are not used somewhere — at least in Europe.
- lmilcin 11y agoComparing number of patents is like comparing number of lines of code.