Matthias Hipp
Matthew Matthias Hipp or the Mathias ( born October 25, 1813 in Blaubeuren; † May 3, 1893 in Fluntern ) was a German clockmaker and inventor who lived in Switzerland. His most notable long after-effects inventions were electrical looms, train signals and clocks as well as the Hipp's band chronograph.
Life
The son of the convent miller was born on 25 October 1813 in Blue Beuren (Württemberg). As an eight- year-old child he had difficulty walking an accident while climbing on one of the many rocks there and was throughout his life. At age 16, he came to a watchmaker Johan Eichenhofer in Blaubeuren into teaching. Upon completion of the apprenticeship period followed the wandering years: 1832 to Ulm to watchmakers Valentin shock, 1834, he worked in St. Gallen, then 1835-1837 in the watch factory Savoie in St. Aubin on Lake Neuchatel.
In 1840 he came to Reutlingen and opened there in 1841 at the age of 28 years his own workshop. In the same year he married the teacher's daughter Johanna Plieninger. The couple had four children.
After the downcast Baden revolution in 1849, his application was rejected as director of the School of Watchmaking in Furtwangen, for political reasons, because he was a democrat. Consequently Hipp decided to leave Germany in 1852. He was appointed by the Swiss government as head of the national telegraph Workshop and Technical Director of the Telegraph Administration. Although he was expressly approved in hiring, to be allowed to continue to work privately, but when the income from inventive activity exceeded its civil servants' salaries by far, were conflicts with the administration and parliament not. Hipp therefore drew 1860, the consequences and asked for his release from the Swiss government service.
The next stage of his life then took him from Bern to Neuchatel, where he became head of a newly constructed telegraph factory. It was not until 1889, Hipp withdrew from the company management and handed over the reins of the company to the engineers Albert FAVARGER and A. De Peyer. From then on, the brands contributed to 1908 the signature " Peyer & FAVARGER, Succ. de M. Hipp ".
Soon after, he moved to Zurich in order Fluntern to his daughter. On May 3, 1893 Matthew Hipp died at the age of 80 years Fluntern. His wife survived him by four years.
Matthew Hipp, who lived in Switzerland since 1852 and worked, but his previous nationality had never given, received the honorific nickname " The Swiss Edison ".
Services
Matthew Hipp brought in the course of 40 years, more than 20 inventions to technical maturity. Some of his inventions proved to be so good that they could be produced and sold approximately one hundred years without fundamental changes.