Edward Kleinschmidt
Edward Ernst Kleinschmidt ( born September 9, 1876 in Bremen, † August 22, 1977 in Canaan, Connecticut, United States) was a German - American inventor and entrepreneur and is regarded as " one of the pioneers of modern communications technology ."
Biography
Kleinschmidt was born in Bremen and was eight years old in the United States, where he made his career despite a lack of education as an inventor. From 1893 he worked on the development of the telegraph. In 1895 he patented a Morse keyboard and he developed the invention. In 1898 he opened his own shop and early 1910s, he founded the Kleinschmidt Electric Company. In 1914 he invented his high-speed teletype machine and thus the first telegraph. With George Seely he developed signaling systems for railways. In 1916 he filed a patent for a page printer.
Kleinschmidt and at the same time the competitors Morkun reported in 1919 similar patents for methods and apparatus for operating printing telegraph. Instead of wasting time and money spend in patent litigation in 1924 merged his company with Morkun. The resulting company Morkun - Kleinschmidt was renamed in 1928 in Teletype Corporation and produced mainly Telegraph. 1930, the company was acquired by the leading news group American Telephone and Telegraph Company ( AT & T) for $ 30 million.
Kleinschmidt decreed last over 118 patents and developed, among others, the paper tape telex, telegraph the image, the high-speed ticker and a number of signal equipment for the railway. He worked among others with Sterling Morton and Howard Krum together.
The company Kleinschmidt Inc from 1986 is now the largest privately-owned company that works for the provision of network-based e-business solutions and services.