Willy Müller (inventor)
Willy Müller (born October 18, 1903 in Burgberg im Allgäu ; † September 15, 1992 in Zollikon , Switzerland) was an inventor .
Life
Until 1922 he did an apprenticeship as an electrician at the Allgäuer Überlandwerk in Sonthofen and then worked for various companies.
He invented an electrical movement advertisement and settled in Munich in 1925 , where he set up his company the next year. In 1930 he invented an electric jack .
In 1938 he invented an automatic answering machine called the telephonograph . However, he had to wait another four years for approval from the Reich Post Central Office. As his company was destroyed in World War II, he founded a new company in Switzerland, where he developed an improved Ipsophon answering machine in 1946/47 .
In 1950 he began producing dictation machines and a new, simplified answering machine, the alibiphon . With his Munich company Willy Müller & Co. KG , he began marketing the Willy Müller system from 1960 . From 1972/73 he used mini-cassettes for his miniaturized automatic answering machines in digital technology.
Web links
- Burgberger wrote inventor history. In: all-in.de, January 27, 2005 (accessed November 17, 2017)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ipsophon. A machine miracle that hears, speaks and ... thinks. In: The Bern Week, 1946
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Müller, Willy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Swiss communications engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 18, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Burgberg in the Allgäu |
| DATE OF DEATH | 15th September 1992 |
| Place of death | Zollikon , Switzerland |