Johann Georg Bodmer

Johann Georg Bodmer ( born December 12, 1786 in Zurich, † May 30, 1864 ) was a mechanic, inventor and entrepreneur. He was in his St. Blasier time Grand Ducal Baden inspector of artillery and the State smelters Albbruck.

Life

After an apprenticeship as a mechanic in the canvas factory Gonzenbach Hauptwil in 1807 he founded a mechanical workshop in Küsnacht. In September 1809 he applied shortly after Henry Duggli around the empty buildings of the monastery of St. Blaise. After the chief forester of St. Blaise, Demolisher, had visited him personally in Zurich and had reported positive response to the government in Karlsruhe, he went before the arrival of the confirmation of purchase immediately with his family and his entire household and equipment to St. Blaise. The investor David Eichthal was attentive and participated in the young and talented inventor. From 1811 she operated to test a spinning around the self-made weaving and spinning machines. In 1813 they took over the gun factory which then existed as Badische gun factory. From 1817 on a small iron work came about. From 1818 onwards, emerged disagreements and quarrels with the finanzkräfigeren David Eichthal. After 1822 his wife Agnes (b. Schulthess ) had died, he left the company and left St. Blaise.

From 1824 to 1828 and from 1833 to 1848 he was in England working, so from 1826 to 1828 in its textile machinery factory and from 1834 to 1838 in his experimental workshop in Bolton, near Manchester. From 1838 to 1846 in a foundry in Manchester, in 1851 by 1860 in the metal goods factory Lanz village near Vienna.

He was a gifted inventor of boilers, marine propulsion, locomotives, railway wheels as well as textile, steam and machine tools. Significantly his inventions were in the spinning machines. For the first time in Europe he was in St. Blaise in the production of the lock parts of the weapons, the principle of interchangeability, WIEF it had already been introduced in America, Eli Whitney, succeeded. In England, he discovered the first working head rolling mill, the 1842 in PR Jackson & Co. was set up in Manchester. In England, he led next to pulleys and conveyor belts for the first time an overhead cranes.

From 1860 he lived and worked with his son Jakob Friedrich rice Hauer and helped this actively in the creation of a machine tool factory in Zurich. Preserved are his diaries, they are now valuable industrial history.

Johann Georg Bodmer is often confused with the mechanic and inventor Johann Caspar Bodmer who also built the sternwheeler Stephanie