Johann Georg Bodmer

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Johann Georg Bodmer

Johann Georg Bodmer (born December 12, 1786 in Zurich ; † May 30, 1864 there ) was a Swiss mechanic , inventor and entrepreneur. During his time in St. Blasier, he was Grand Ducal Inspector of the Baden Artillery and the Albbruck State Ironworks .

Life

After an apprenticeship as a mechanic in the Gonzenbach canvas factory in Hauptwil , he founded a mechanical workshop in Küsnacht in 1807 . At the beginning of 1809, Johann Caspar Bodmer, on behalf of the Bodmer brothers and the company JJ Wuest & Co , offered to buy the St. Blasien monastery if they were allowed to use water power for industrial enterprises. After the head forester of St. Blasien, Gerer, visited him personally in Zurich and reported a positive decision to the government in Karlsruhe, he immediately went to St. Blasien with his family and all his household goods and equipment before the confirmation of purchase was received. Investor David von Eichthal took notice and participated in the young and talented inventor. From 1811 they operated a spinning mill to test the self-made weaving and spinning machines . In 1813 they took over the rifle factory, which then continued to exist as the Badische rifle factory . A small ironworks was added from 1817. From 1818 differences of opinion and quarrels arose with the financially strong David von Eichthal. After his wife Agnes (née Schulthess) died in 1822, he left the company and left St. Blasien.

From 1824 to 1828 and from 1833 to 1848 he worked in England, from 1826 to 1828 in his textile machine factory and from 1834 to 1838 in his test workshop in Bolton near Manchester . From 1838 to 1846 in a foundry in Manchester, 1851 from 1860 in the metal goods factory Lanzendorf near Vienna.

He was a talented inventor of boiler furnaces, ship drives, locomotives, railway wheels as well as textile, steam and machine tools. His inventions in spinning machines were important. For the first time in Europe in St. Blasien he had succeeded in the production of weapon lock parts, as Eli Whitney had already introduced in America. In England he invented the first working head mill which was used at PR Jackson & Co. in Manchester from 1842. In England he first introduced overhead cranes in addition to pulley blocks and assembly lines .

From 1860 he lived and worked with his son-in-law Jakob Friedrich Reishauer and helped him to set up a machine tool factory in Zurich. His diaries have been preserved; today they are valuable evidence of industrial history.

Johann Georg Bodmer is often confused with the mechanic and inventor Johann Caspar Bodmer, the builder of the paddle steamer Stephanie .

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  1. ↑ Fischer, W. (1972). Economy and society in the age of industrialization Articles, studies, lectures . Goettingen. urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb00048869-9 . P. 410.
  2. ^ Ueli Müller: Johann Georg Bodmer. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  3. ↑ Jürgen Bönig, The introduction of assembly line work in Germany until 1933 , Chapter 2, p. 48
personal data
SURNAME Bodmer, Johann Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss inventor and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1786
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 1864
Place of death Zurich