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  2. Topf and Sons - Wikipedia

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    He established the new company to sell a system for heating brewing coppers which he had invented and patented. [4] He had four sons: Gustav (1853–1893); Albert (1857–1896); Max Julius Ernst, known as Julius (1859–1914) and Wilhelm Louis, known as Ludwig, (1863–1914). A fifth son died in childhood.

  3. Friedrich Wilhelm Sander - Wikipedia

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    Friedrich Sander (left) and Fritz von Opel (right) in front of Opel RAK 1 rocket-powered aircraft. Rebstock, Frankfurt. 30 September 1929. Friedrich Wilhelm Sander (25 August 1885 in Glatz (Kłodzko) – 15 September 1938) was a German pyrotechnics and rocket technology engineer as well as manufacturer remembered for his contributions to rocket-powered flight as key protagonist of the Opel-RAK ...

  4. List of German inventors and discoverers - Wikipedia

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    Wilhelm Bauer: Inventor and engineer, who built several hand-powered submarines. Eugen Baumann: He was one of the first people to create polyvinyl chloride (PVC), and, together with Carl Schotten, he discovered the Schotten-Baumann reaction. Carl Baunscheidt: Inventor of the Lebenswecker ("life awakener") or "artificial leech".

  5. Sander - Wikipedia

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    The sander smooths it and sends it out the other side. Good for finishing large surfaces. Flap sander or sanding flap wheel: A sanding attachment shaped like a Rolodex and used on a hand-held drill or mounted on a bench grinder for finishing curved surfaces. Orbital sander: A hand-held sander that vibrates in small circles, or "orbits."

  6. Karl Ludwig Sand - Wikipedia

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    Karl Ludwig Sand (Wunsiedel, Upper Franconia (then in Prussia), 5 October 1795 – Mannheim, 20 May 1820) was a German university student and member of a liberal Burschenschaft (student association). He was executed in 1820 for the murder of the conservative dramatist August von Kotzebue the previous year in Mannheim .

  7. Karl Nessler - Wikipedia

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    Karl Ludwig Nessler was born on 2 May 1872 in Todtnau. He was the son of Rosina (née Laitner) and Bartholomäus Nessler, a cobbler in Todtnau, a small town located high in the Black Forest, just beneath the Feldberg. He reportedly conceived the idea of a permanent wave early on.

  8. Ludwig Prandtl - Wikipedia

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    Ludwig Prandtl (4 February 1875 – 15 August 1953) [1] was a German fluid dynamicist, physicist and aerospace scientist. He was a pioneer in the development of rigorous systematic mathematical analyses which he used for underlying the science of aerodynamics , which have come to form the basis of the applied science of aeronautical engineering ...

  9. Ludwig Blattner - Wikipedia

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    Ludwig Blattner, also known as Louis Blattner, [2] was a pioneer of early magnetic sound recording, licensing a steel wire-based design from German inventor Dr. Kurt Stille, [citation needed] and enhancing it to use steel tape instead of wire, thereby creating an early form of tape recorder. This device was marketed as the Blattnerphone. [3]