Artur Fischer, inventor extraordinaire, is dead at 96

Artur Fischer, inventor extraordinaire, is dead at 96, Artur Fischer, a German artist accomplished as a locksmith, captivated added patents than Thomas Edison, and a part of his added than 1,100 patents are the bank ballast you accept apparently acclimated to adhere pictures and mirrors and the aboriginal synchronized camera flash. Fischer died Jan. 27 at his home in Waldachtal, Germany, The New York Times appear Monday. He was 96.

"What Bill Gates was to the claimed computer, Artur Fischer is to do-it-yourself home repair," German annual Der Spiegel said in 1915, a year afterwards Fischer won the celebrated European Artist Award, a lifetime accomplishment cost from the European Patent Office. His aboriginal big advance was the flash, purchased by the camera aggregation Agfa, aggressive by his disability to photograph his adolescent babe central — his acumen was to accord an electric beam with the camera shutter. In 1958, he patented the accretion bank anchor, acceptance humans to adhere abundant altar on adhesive and drywall. Today, his company, the Fischer Group, produces added than 14 actor of those anchors every day at factories about the world.

Fischer's endure big bartering hit was the Fischertechnik kit, an electrical archetypal set acclimated by German kids and hobbyists akin to actualize machines and robots — he started off giving the kits as Christmas ability to audience in 1964, again brought them to bazaar if they accepted a hit. You can apprentice added about Fischer, who tinkered until the end, in this abbreviate blur from the European Patent Office.
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