Richard Müller-Uri
Richard Müller-Uri (born February 7, 1859 in Hüttensteinach (Thuringia), † July 5, 1929 in Braunschweig ) was a German glassblower and instrument maker .
Following the family tradition, Richard Müller-Uri learned the glassblowing trade from family members. His last stop was the workshop of Geißler's successor Franz Müller in Bonn. To acquire commercial knowledge, he attended courses at business schools, including in England and Hungary .
He also worked on his scientific knowledge, which he benefited from as an instrument maker and which enabled him to scientifically penetrate his products, by attending physics lectures with Heinrich Hertz and lectures in chemistry with August Kekulé von Stradonitz .
In 1894 Richard Müller-Uri joined his cousin Louis Müller-Unkel as a partner in his business in Braunschweig. However, differing views on corporate management ensured that both parted ways after just over a year. He founded his own production workshop for gas discharge tubes , which he expanded to include “trading in chemical and physical apparatus and utensils”.
He established contacts with the Technical University of Braunschweig and became a member of the natural science association, where he regularly gave lectures on innovations in instrument making. He has participated several times in meetings of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors and has also given lectures on products from his workshop.
For universities he developed gas discharge tubes in "extra large dimensions", so that discharge phenomena were "visible even to less keen eyes in the largest auditoriums in the more distant places". For the demonstration of spectral tubes, cited as a further example of his technological developments, he constructed a chamber in which several tubes could be accommodated. These could be brought into view one after the other using a revolver mechanism.
Richard Müller-Uri managed to get involved in the rapidly developing market for X-ray tubes in an impressive manner . He developed a tube that was specially designed for radiation treatment of skin tuberculosis (lupus vulgaris). He brought out a total of 34 patented device designs. He also included a lighting system developed in the USA in his sales program, although this was harshly criticized and disparaged by physicists and technicians. It was the forerunner of today's fluorescent tubes .
Richard Müller-Uri was increasingly selling products from other manufacturers in addition to its own products. He built up a company that would be briefly referred to today as a teaching materials company. Devices from the Braunschweig company can still be found in schools, universities and museums around the world. The Deutsches Museum in Munich presents two gas discharge tubes (flower, electric egg) in the permanent exhibition.
On December 12, 1950 the company Richard Müller-Uri - glass technology products, laboratory supplies, apparatus for chem. u. phys., meteorol. u. bacteriol. Institute that had been continued by his family after Müller-Uri's death, deleted from the commercial register.
See also
- Ludwig Müller-Uri , glassmaker from Lauscha
literature
- Fricke / Dörfel: Glass technician from Schmalenbuchen in Braunschweig. In: Rudolstädter Heimathefte, published by the district of Saalfeld-Rudolstadt; Part I, 53rd year 2007, issue 1/2, pp. 4–12; Part II, 53rd year 2007, issue 3/4
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Müller-Uri, Richard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German glassblower and entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 7, 1859 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hüttensteinach ( Thuringia ) |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 5, 1929 |
| Place of death | Braunschweig |