Paul Kollsman

Paul Kollsman ( born February 22, 1900 in Germany, † March 17, 1982 in Beverly Hills, California, United States) was an inventor. He earned the airplane particular height measurement and instruments, making the instrument flight was possible.

Life

Kollsman (presumably then still Kollsmann ) studied mechanical engineering in Stuttgart and Munich. In 1923 he emigrated to the United States. He worked first as a truck driver before he found a job at Pioneer Instruments Co. in Brooklyn, New York. In 1928 he founded his own company Kollsman Instruments Co. $ 500 starting capital. After over a year of searching, James Doolittle was ready to test Kollsmans barometer in flight. Kollsman developed as a navigation device, a combination of gyroscope, an artificial horizon and barometer. Kollsman accumulated in the course of his life, more than 200 patents. He worked worldwide for civil aviation, the U.S. military and NASA. The U.S. pilot during the Second World War were also equipped with its instruments such as the Apollo missions.

In 1944 he married in New York Julie Baroness Dorothea von Bodenhausen. Kollsman died 1982.