Jakub Kryštof Rad

Jacob Christoph Rad ( born March 25, 1799 in Rheinfelden, † October 13, 1871 in Vienna) was the head of a sugar factory and has become known as the inventor of the sugar cube into the story.

Life

Jacob Christoph Rad was born the son of a front Austrian military officials. His father had family roots to the Swiss Brugg. He was later transferred to Tarnów in Galicia, and came from there in 1808 to Vienna. The son was sent to the capital for a druggist in teaching. His journeyman who spent abroad Jacob Christoph Rad. In 1835 he returned to Vienna. When he married in 1839 Juliane Schill, he was out of work. Maybe good connections of his wife he moved forward professionally.

Jacob Christoph Rad was (today Dačice ) entrusted in 1840 with the management of the sugar factory in the Moravian Datschitz, one to the Empire of Austria belonging place. He began at this time in trying to win sugar cubes. In fact, he managed to refine cane sugar and bring a machine in cube form. On January 23, 1843 him a five-year privilege for the contrived sugar cubes Press was issued, he was able to exploit his invention for commercial purposes. In Datschitz then the generation of so-called tea - sugar or sugar cubes Vienna was taken.

Wheel changed in 1846 for three years as secretary to the Chamber of Commerce in Vienna. He worked as a creative spirit with a further invention. An optical telegraph system not prevailed, however. The experimental line built on the Istrian coast in 1849 did not meet the set in the innovation expectations.

Therefore, the inventor withdrew again into the sugar industry back and gave inter alia, the address and Yearbook of the Austrian -Hungarian beet sugar factories and refineries, further, the company recorded the alcohol distilleries. out. As a father of 15 children, he died in Vienna in 1871.

Sugar in the 19th century

Was produced sugar before the invention in the form of loaf sugar. These were large pieces of crystal sugar in cone shape that were rock hard after cooling, the sugar mass. Such a Sugar came in sizes up to 1.50 m height on the market and was expensive. If sugar in the household requires about for a chat over coffee, were extract from this cone smaller pieces. They used to a tool that was offered in the form of sugar hammer, hoe sugar, sugar crusher or sugar tongs. When you mistreat the hard ground there were often times on injuries to the hands of the service staff. Wheel Juliane is said to have injured herself when she anfertigte sugar cubes.

Wheel, wondering how he could bring smaller pieces access roads. He created a model of sheet metal strips that resembled a modern ice cube tray. The Sugarloaf he was grate. The tiny pieces were now slightly moistened and placed in the model. When everything was dry, we now had passable sugar cubes. On these basic considerations he perfected his sugar cubes Press. As an alternative to the usual loaf sugar he was expelled from the trade, which also sold the resulting in the production process of sugar in the boiling sugar syrup.

Honor

In Dačice a monument was erected in 1983, commemorating the sugar cube and its inventor.