Hans Hautsch

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Hans Hautsch (born January 4, 1595 in Nuremberg , † January 31, 1670 Nuremberg) was a circling blacksmith ( stuff smith ) from Nuremberg's Ledergasse.

His father Antoni (1563–1627) and grandfather Kilian († 1570) were circle smiths.

On June 25, 1621 he married Magdalena (* 1603), the daughter of the carpenter Jacob Flexlein. With her he had a daughter and five sons: Georg (* 1624, circle smith), Gottfried (1634–1703) and Johann Andreas (* 1638). In 1702 Gottfried invented the conical ignition hole, in which the pan spills itself, giving his pistols three times the loading speed.

In 1649 Hans Hautsch built an elevator for podagrists ( gout sufferers ).

Shortly thereafter, he built a four-wheel mechanical car that supposedly drove 1.6 km / h by itself:

“That is free and does not require any pretension, neither by horses nor otherwise. And such a car goes 2000 paces in an hour; you can keep still if you want, you can continue if you want, and yet everything is clockwork. "

Soon afterwards he had to deliver another as a (Trionfo or) Triumphal car . According to the brochure, they should be driven by a clockwork. However, Georg Philipp Harsdörffer contradicted this in 1651 and the French traveler Balthasar de Monconys in 1666 in his Journal des Voyages . Harsdörffer explained in his mathematical refreshment lessons that he had thrown at the master's head that a boy was operating a crank inside.

Fire engine 1650, invented by Hans Hautsch

In 1650 he built a fire engine with an air kettle to get an uninterrupted stream of water. On each side, 14 men had to move a piston rod back and forth in a horizontal direction. The air tank, a kind of pressure accumulator, produced an even jet of water despite the jerky pumping movements. This was dispensed from a reversible tube that was permanently mounted on the syringe and reached heights of up to 20 meters. In 1655 Caspar Schott inspected the fire engine and reported about it in his Magia universalis .

The news about a flying machine (1660) is probably based on a misunderstanding; According to another statement, Hautsch built an eagle flapping wings on the occasion of an imperial visit to the Free Imperial City.

In 1664 he supplied the King of Denmark with a mechanized doll's house with over 100 individual movements of the figures and in the following year for King Louis XIV of France as teaching material for his son, a battle representation with around 462 moving silver soldiers and the noise of the battle. He also built a three-story machine factory in which the creation of the world and biblical scenes are shown in a moving manner below. In the middle one saw 72 craftsmen at work and above a large bathing complex.

Hautsch also invented the diffuse luster (metal particles made of bronze). “The preparation consists of sieving or dusting fine filings of various metals, washing them in strong lye, and then allowing them to tarnish on a sheet of copper or iron placed over glowing coals, stirring constantly. The shavings of brass then take on all sorts of shades of gold, those of copper the shades of red, those of iron and steel those of blue and violet, those of tin and cognizance of white and bluish-white color with a metallic luster. These colored shavings are run through a flat mill, which consists of two well-polished rollers made of the hardest steel, and resembles the ones used by the gold and silver wire pullers, except that a funnel is attached to the top for convenience. ”His descendants have the scattered luster , which is used for cave works, lacquered work and wallpaper, was made until the end of the 18th century.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Maria Feldhaus:  Hautsch, Hans . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 50, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1905, p. 84.
  2. ^ Pierre Béhar: Colloque International d'Etudes Humanistes. Rodopi, 1993, ISBN 978-9-051-83258-7 , p. 361 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  3. ↑ Quoted from G. Schaetzel, Königlicher Postoffizial: Motor-Posten. Technology and efficiency of today's self-propelled systems and their usability for public transport , Verlag von R. Oldenbourg, Munich 1901. According to some sources, the future King Prince Karl Gustav of Sweden bought the vehicle from Hautsch in 1650 for 500 Reichstaler. However, there is no document on this in the Swedish (Royal) National Library. See Feldhausm. P. 1265. (PDF; 2.2 MB)
  4. ↑ a b Inventions and discoveries in Nuremberg until 1806. In: foerderverein-khm-nuernberg.de. Retrieved January 13, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Feldhausm., Pp. 312–315 (PDF; 3.1 MB)
  6. ↑ History of hand pressure syringes in Germany ( Memento from February 26, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) In: home.nordwest.net
  7. ^ W. Hornung: The development of the fire pump from the end of the Middle Ages to the 18th century. A look at the history of technology (3rd part). ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2015 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. In: VFDB magazine. No. 4, 1960, pp. 133-141. (PDF file) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nbdc.nl
  8. ↑ www.stadtarchiv.nuernberg.de: Nuremberg inventions and discoveries about the winged imperial eagle
  9. ↑ Streuglanz in the Economic Encyclopedia (1773 - 1858) by JG Krünitze: Streuglanz . In: kruenitz1.uni-trier.de. Retrieved January 13, 2015 .
  10. ↑ also shell work, rocaille; Wall lining by art. Grottos with stones, shells, etc.; architectural ornament from shells or forms replicated from seashells; came up in the late Renaissance, high point in the Baroque and Rococo
personal data
SURNAME Hautsch, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German blacksmith
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1595
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1670
Place of death Nuremberg