Rasmus Malling-Hansen
Hans Rasmus Johann Malling-Hansen (born September 5, 1835 in Hunseby, † September 27, 1890 in Copenhagen ) was pastor and chairman of the Royal Dovstum Institute in Copenhagen.
Life
During his work with the deaf, the young pastor Malling-Hansen made the discovery that one could reproduce 12 phonetic signs in one second with "finger language", whereas with ordinary writing only 4 phonetic signs per second could be put on paper. So it had to be possible to construct a machine with which one could use the speed of as many fingers as possible to write.
Malling-Hansen developed in 1865 Skrivekugle ( writing ball , writing ball or Sphère écrivante ), the first series-produced typewriter in the world. It consisted of 54 concentric key sticks and printed capital letters, numbers and punctuation marks on a cylindrical sheet of paper. Malling-Hansen's most prominent customer was the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche .
Writing ball - model 1878
Scrivekugle in the Technical Collections Dresden
Nietzsche's "Malling-Hansen" writing ball in the former Nietzsche archive in Weimar
literature
- Otto Burghagen: The typewriter. Illustrated description of all common typewriters together with thorough instructions for working on all systems . Hamburg 1898.
- C. Nyrop: Hansen, Hans Rasmus Malling Johan . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 6 : Gerson-H. Hansen . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1892, p. 634-637 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dieter Eberwein: Nietzsche's writing ball . Eberwein-Typoscriptverlag, Schauenburg 2005, p. 18 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Malling-Hansen, Rasmus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Malling-Hansen, Hans Rasmus Johan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish pastor and inventor of one of the first typewriters |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 5, 1835 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hunseby |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 27, 1890 |
| Place of death | Copenhagen |