Manfred Curry

Manfred Curry (born December 11, 1899 in Munich , † February 13, 1953 in Landsberg am Lech ) was a German-American doctor , inventor , sailor and author . Curry lived a long time of his life as a US citizen in Riederau , a district of Dießen on the west bank of the Ammersee .

Sailor and designer

The curry clamp named after Manfred Curry

According to his own statements, Manfred Curry took part in around 1,400 sailing regattas , a large number of which he is said to have won.

His successes are due on the one hand to the superior construction of his boats, on the other hand to his extraordinary talent for recognizing changing wind conditions at an early stage and using them tactically. In addition, Curry almost only competed in boat classes in which building regulations and regatta regulations allowed constructive design options (see also construction class ).

In 1928, Curry competed in the Olympic Games sailing competitions for the United States. He finished 10th in the 12-foot dinghy and 6th in the 8-meter class .

Curry carried out numerous pioneering experiments to improve the cut and profile of sails and to optimize the flow conditions. He introduced, among other tests in the wind tunnel of the aircraft manufacturer Junkers and dismissed the superiority of his "battened mainsail" to where the sailing along the lines of bird wings by battens is profiled.

His book The Aerodynamics of Sailing and the Art of Regatta Sailing (1925), which he claims to have written at the age of eighteen, was translated into many languages ​​from the 1920s onwards. Looking back on a new edition from 1949, Curry can say with satisfaction: “Many suggestions that I made in the first edition of this book, for example: B. the Marconi rigging, the genoa jib, the ball spinnaker, the so-called large plate boom (Park Avenue boom, which was used in the gold cup regattas between England and America), rotating masts, arched and adjustable swords (used in the inland scows) were widely used ” .

Manfred Curry also designed his boat hulls according to aerodynamic and hydrodynamic aspects. His 20 m² racing dinghy Aero from 1929 and the further development Aero II from 1936 still enjoy a legendary reputation today because of numerous innovations.

Curry brake on the AERO II

The curry clamp , a device for quick clamping ( covering ) and loosening of pods , was named after him . Another invention that was not able to establish itself in regatta technology was the curry brake , a construction at the stern of the boat for tactical braking in special regatta situations.

Patents and the Curry Landskiff

Uncovered Landskiff vehicles (1927)

Together with Carl August Bembé, Curry invented a domed "large boom for sailing boats"; the German patent No. 401658 was granted on December 1, 1923. In addition to improvements in sailing, Manfred Curry was also interested in gliding and bicycles constructed according to aerodynamic principles. He is said to have patented a velomobile called “Landskiff” in 1926. This wheeled vehicle is driven by rudder-like movements by the drivers sitting on roller seats, who hold on to sliding bars in the side walls of the vehicle with their hands; the sliding movement of these traction elements is converted into a rotary movement of the rear wheel axle via freewheel gears and return springs (Switzerland. Main patent No. 118589, filed on March 19, 1926). Curry's “device for determining the incoming weather”, which uses the effects of substances that “change color depending on humidity and temperature”, was patented on October 15, 1934 (Austrian patent no. 140831); This is an improvement of the display mechanism with two scales that can be rotated against each other and are intended to provide information on changes in air pressure and wind direction.

Curry as a doctor

Around 1930 Curry received his doctorate in Munich on the subject of “Myoma and the picture of old age”.

In the mid-1940s, he founded the American Bioclimatic Research Institute in Riederau , which after his untimely death was continued as the Manfred Curry Clinic by his widow Maude Hester-Curry .

"Bioclimatic"

As a doctor and scientist, Curry dealt with radiesthesia (see Currynetz) and "bioclimatics". A typology of humans based on the medical aspects of bioclimatism is primarily used in alternative medicine . Beyond the original bioclimatic subject area, this type theory is used to understand individual health tolerances and needs; a partnership mediation also invokes them.

Curry net

A diagonal grid of field lines (or " earth rays "), which goes back to Manfred Curry and which should run at regular intervals over the entire earth, is referred to by dowsers and other radiesthetes as the "curry network" . With a grid width of around 3 m and an orientation in NE-SW and NW-SE directions, the network should be polarized differently, depending on the time and weather. The existence of such radiation phenomena was at least highly controversial in the past and is now largely disproved.

Fonts

• The aerodynamics of the sail and the art of regatta sailing. Jos. C. Huber, Diessen before Munich 1925.
• Myoma and picture of old age. (Dissertation.) Bavarian Printing and Publishing Company, Munich 1930.
• Wind and water. F. Bruckmann, Munich 1930.
• Regatta tactics in question and answer. Klasing, Berlin 1932. / as a reprint of the first edition: Delius-Klasing, Bielefeld 2000, ISBN 3-7688-1171-9 .
• Flight and clouds. F. Bruckmann, Munich 1934.
• Beauty of ice skating. Paul Franke, Berlin 1934.
• Bioclimatic. The control of the healthy and sick organism through the atmosphere. (2 volumes) Oldenbourg, Munich 1946.
• Regatta sailing. The aerodynamics of the sails. 5th edition, Schweizer Druck- und Verlagshaus, Zurich 1949. (extended new edition of The Aerodynamics of Sailing and the Art of Regatta Sailing published by Huber in 1925 ) / as a reprint of the 6th edition from 1960: Delius-Klasing, Bielefeld 1994, ISBN 3-7688-0854-8 .
• The key to life. The secret of attraction between two people. Swiss printing and publishing house, Zurich 1949.
• Clouds, wind and water. Swiss printing and publishing house, Zurich 1951.

Honors

Manfred Curry was inducted into the Hall of Fame by World Sailing .

In Riederau, the street name Curry Park reminds of him.

Web links

Commons : Manfred Curry  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Manfred Curry in the catalog of the German National Library
• [2] - Innovations and improvements to my racing dinghy "Aero". by Dr. Manfred Curry
• Manfred Curry in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• [3] Switzerland. Patent CH000000118589A for a wheeled vehicle, filed March 19, 1926

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Regatta sailing. The aerodynamics of sails (5th edition); Zurich: Swiss printing and publishing house, 1949; P. 7.
2. ↑ The sailor Bobby Schenk even ascribes him "round one thousand five hundred regatta victories": [1] ; Retrieved April 4, 2008
3. ↑ ISAF ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ 12footdinghy.org
5. ↑ Sailing Olympic Games 1928 at Amsterdam (net) - 8 meters ( memento from September 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) sports123.com
6. ↑ Regatta sailing ... (1949): "Nature as a hint for the construction of a sail" , p. 13ff.
7. ↑ Regatta-Segeln ... (1949), p. 8. In the foreword with the statement “Rapperswil am Zürichsee, 1949” Curry gives translations into English, French, Spanish and Turkish. The translation into English: Yacht Racing - The Aerodynamics of Sails and Racing Tactics. procured besides Robert W. Atkinson his father Charles Emerson Curry, to whom the issue is dedicated. CE Curry was therefore also an enthusiastic regatta sailor; According to Manfred Curry in the dedication, "he died on the tiller of his yacht during a regatta in 1935" .
8. ↑ see article in BZ at noon on November 3, 1929: large article about Aero with photo. The accompanying article covers the design and also the controversies that sparked the boat. So the boat already existed in 1929.
9. ↑ Manfred Curry: Innovations and improvements to my racing dinghy "Aero" yacht sport archive.
10. ↑ Restoration report ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 13, 2007 
11. ↑ See also Yacht.de , accessed on October 13, 2007
12. ↑ and by his own account not invented by him; Quote: "The so-called" Bulldog jam cleats ", discovered in America, have proved their worth, see the Yachtsport Archive
13. ↑ Mochet.org: Curry-Landskiff ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 13, 2007 
14. ^ Title of the dissertation as stated in the catalog of the German National Library; see web links
15. ^ Illness from the air . In: Der Spiegel . No. 21 , 1953 ( online - May 20, 1953 , obituary and biography).
16. ↑ Die Zeit of August 4, 1955: "Recreation in the ozone room"; Retrieved April 4, 2008
17. ↑ The key to life. The secret of attraction between two people. Zurich: Swiss printing and publishing house, 1949
18. ↑ clean: spiration ( memento of the original dated August 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Individualized smoking cessation with the Curry typing method 
19. ↑ SymPars matching ( Memento of the original from January 18, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. patented process for partnership matching according to Curry 
20. ↑ cf. Rutengeher.de: The curry net. ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 13, 2007 
21. ↑ Manfred Curry, 1952, The reaction line system as a disease-causing factor, Hippocrates, volume 19
22. ↑ As early as 1947, Time reported on the occasion of a lecture Currys gave to allergists in Atlantic City: "Pessimists among them feared that the aran theory, whatever its merits, would prove a gold mine for quacks and medical faddists." Time.com: Man of Aran , retrieved on April 26, 2008
23. ^ "Earth rays and water veins - Faith or fact?" ( Memento from April 6, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) WDR, October 29, 2003.
24. ^ Sailing World Magazine Hall of Fame. sailing.org, accessed November 27, 2017 (English). 
25. ↑ (ger): The “Schallerin” was not a woman. Riederau street signs get additions. In: Augsburger Allgemeine. July 9, 2012, accessed November 11, 2019 .