Braun Calculator - Black

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Anton Braun was appointed in 1724 as a mechanician and optician of the imperial court in Vienna, Austria. I used to have this as a little one. To me, this was my iPhone, which today's kids already navigate well at a young age. It felt very intuitive, I guess because of its straightforward and clear design. Didn't help me much in math class, though. Key Points Anton Braun was appointed in 1724 as a mechanician and optician of the imperial court in Vienna, Austria. From today’s perspective, this Braun calculator may not seem like anything special, but it was, in fact, a life-changing design.

The German mechanic, constructor and optician Anton (Antonius) Braun (see biography of Anton Braun) (1686-1728) from Möhringen (Baden-Württemberg, Germany), was appointed in 1724 as a mechanician and optician of the imperial court in Vienna, Austria. In the same 1724 he started to design a calculating machine for the purposes of the court. Thanks to its easy-to-use buttons and classic visual language, it had a huge impact on calculating, becoming an everyday household item. You just have to look at this shaver next to any of its contemporaries to see how revolutionary its design was in 1962. Sixty years later and it still looks like it’s from the future. The ET 33 Calculator (1977) It consisted of a disc with various steps as well as a segment with nine cogs. When it was turned once round, it passed the setting cylinders, on each of which a certain rod pushed the corresponding step outwards, whereupon the cog-segment of the adapting segment engaged a cog-wheel of the result mechanism and thus rotated the numbered disc to the correct digit in the corresponding window.

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Anton Braun died young. He was only 41 years old due to long-running lung disease. He died in Vienna on April 2, 1728. Next Up.. A circular sundial made by Anton Braun in 1719 is kept now in the collection of Adler Planetarium in Chicago. The First Calculating Machine ( Calculator ) Braun was born on April 22, 1686 in Möhringen an der Donau (bei Tuttlingen), a small town on the upper Danube, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He was the first child from Hans Jacobus Braun’s second marriage to Franziska Riestler. Hans Jacobus Braun had 3 daughters and 2 sons from his first marriage. The machine featured a single central so-called adapting segment, which allowed the number of special, complicated parts to be greatly reduced. Below the setting mechanism was placed a set of vertical cylinders, each with nine rods of different lengths rising from its top. For example, if the digit nine was entered, the shortest rod was rotated to the outside, as then one full turn of the crank turned the central adapting segment once around the central axle.

Complicated concepts showed in a simple way – this is a principle that weaves through all of Dieter Rams’ work, especially the Braun Lectron System. Sign up to our newsletter to be the first to know about new exhibitions, events, courses, access tours and more.As head of design at Braun, the German consumer electronics manufacturer, Dieter Rams (1932-) emerged as one of the most influential industrial designers of the late 20th century by defining an elegant, legible, yet rigorous visual language for its products.