Daniel Broido

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Daniel Broido (born May 17, 1903 in Kirensk , Siberia, † October 10, 1990 ) was a Russian-British engineer.

Life

Shortly after his birth, his parents fled to England, where he grew up with his grandmother. In 1905 his parents returned illegally to Saint Petersburg , where his sister Vera Broido was born in 1907 . From 1920 the family lived in exile in Berlin , where his father worked for the Russian trade delegation. Daniel studied at the Technical University of Berlin, and after graduating in mechanical engineering, worked first for AEG and then for Rotaprint .

1934-1945

In 1934 Rotaprint director Fischer sent him on a business trip to the London branch . When the SS discovered this rescue operation, Fischer took his own life. On September 25, 1934 he and Vera's friend Raoul Hausmann applied for a patent for the Optophone in England . It was " deposited on October 25, 1935 and officially registered on April 27, 1936 under the number 446338: Improvements in and relating to Calculating Apparatus. " In 1940 he married Nordi Osten, with whom he had sons Michael and Stephen. During World War II he worked at Caterpillar on the design of tanks.

1946-1990

In 1946 he received British citizenship. He returned to Rotaprint but soon moved to Olding Developments Limited , where he was promoted to Senior Director and Chief Engineer. In 1950 the company, along with its patents, was sold to the British Tabulating Machine Company . Here he became a development engineer for optical reading machines and received over 100 patents in this area. On February 6, 1954, he filed a patent for a barcode system that he called “mini marks”. In 1956 he was recruited by Raymond Thompson of J. Lyons and Co. to develop the LEO I computer and worked with Pinkerton. When Lyons exported his computers to Eastern Europe, he served as sales director. He lived in Cockfosters, near Barnet, Hertfordshire and moved to International Computers Limited , for which he traveled extensively to the Eastern Bloc from 1966–1970.

supporting documents

  1. ↑ http://www.kzwp.com/lyons.pensioners/obituary2B.htm
  2. ↑ http://www.rechnerlexikon.de/it/artikel/Broido,_Daniel
  3. ^ Resistance in Berlin against the Nazi regime from 1933 to 1945 ; Volume 2, p. 166
  4. ^ Anna-Carola Krausse, Kathrin Hatesaul, IVAM Center Julio González: Raoul Hausmann, 1886–1971: the German philistine is annoyed . Ed .: Raoul Hausmann, Eva Züchner, Berlinische Galerie. Hatje, Ostfildern 1994, ISBN 3-7757-0518-X , p. 284 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  5. ↑ Peter Weibel (Ed.): Beyond Art . Neue Galerie Graz at the Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz 1997, ISBN 3-85165-254-1 , p. 92 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  6. ^ Mike Hally: Electronic brains: stories from the dawn of the computer age ; P. 129
personal data
SURNAME Broido, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-British engineer
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirensk
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1990