Fredrik Rosing Bull
Fredrik Rosing Bull (born December 25, 1882 in Oslo , † June 7, 1925 ) was a Norwegian engineer . He was involved in the development of punch card machines, for which he invented punches , among other things . FR Bull is considered the Norwegian father of information technology .
Frederik was born in Oslo, the eighth of fifteen children. His father practiced and researched in the field of ophthalmology , and some of his siblings also pursued engineering careers. He studied from 1904 to 1907 at the Kristiania Teknisk Skole in Kristiania .
In 1919 he applied for his first patent for a tabulating machine in Oslo . Two years later in Zurich he applied for a patent for an electrical registration machine for evaluating statistics. The Swiss Egli and Endrich, as well as the Belgian Genon acquired the patents in 1928 and just a year later the first punch card machines were manufactured in Switzerland. In order to be able to exploit these patents , the later successful company Bull Computer was founded as Compagnie des machines Bull (CMB) in 1931 .
Fredrik Rosing Bull died of cancer at the age of 42.
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| SURNAME | Bull, Fredrik Rosing |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 25, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oslo |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 7, 1925 |