Erwin Sick
Erwin Sick ( born November 3, 1909 in Heilbronn; † 3 December 1988) was a German inventor and entrepreneur.
Life and career
1924 Erwin Sick began his professional career with an optics and was subsequently visited the college for precision mechanics and optics in Göttingen. In 1932 he got a job at Siemens & Halske, where he initially worked in the computing office and in the laboratory. 1934 to 1939 held Erwin Sick different positions at Siemens, Bosch and Askania initially as a design engineer and later as engineer. He was there engaged in development projects on color film, cinema technology, astronomical and physical devices.
In 1939 he became head of the Laboratory of Optical Works A. C. Steinheil & Söhne, Munich. In 1945 he gave up the job and took the plunge into self-employment. Because he was politically unencumbered, Erwin Sick received on 26 September 1946 by the American military government, " to exercise his profession as an engineer. " That was the birth of the later Sick AG.
On the Munich taking place in June 1951 "German Inventor and New Mass" Sick presented the first wooden model made his light curtain and received a diploma " for creative performance ." The patent application was made on October 20, invented by Erwin Sick Light Curtain on the autocollimator principle meant the technical breakthrough and the basis of an entire program of devices.
On December 3, 1988 Erwin Sick died at the age of 79 years due to a heart attack.