Brunsviga 1
Vierspezies-Sprossenradmaschine
1892
Brunsviga 1
Four-species pinwheel machine
1892
The first German pinwheel machine was built by Braunschweiger Nähmaschinen-Fabrik Grimme, Natalis & Co. in 1892, shortly after the purchase of the license for the Odhner patents in the German-speaking countries. This machine is one of the first exemplars and is almost completely identical to the Odhner Model 1. The circular seal from Grimme, Natalis & Co. is in the same place as the Odhner seal on the Odhner Model 1. This machine, which cost 150 M in 1892, was produced for only one year. Brunsviga relatively quickly developed its own improvements, e.g. the extension of the crank. Today only a few specimens of this first Brunsviga model are known worldwide, one of them in the Science Museum London (no. 262), two in the Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum (no. 407 and 633) and the two specimens (no. 285 and 308) in the Bonn collection. These machines do not yet have any safety devices to prevent operating errors and - particularly serious - the tens transmission in the result mechanism only goes up to the 10th digit.
- Inventory number:
- FDM9248
- Inventor:
- Odhner, Willgodt T.
- Manufacturer:
- Grimme, Natalis & Co. C.-G.a.A. (später K.-G.a.A.)
- Year of manufacture:
- 1892
- Main category:
- Vierspeziesmaschine
- Subcategories:
- Sprossenrad
- Capacity:
- 9 (EW) x 8 (UZW) x 13 (RW)
- Dimensions (H x B x T):
- 14 x 30 x 15 cm
- Weight:
- 6,7 kg
- Serial number:
- 285
- Literature:
- Biegel, Gerd: „100 Jahre Brunsviga“, in: Informationen und Berichte LBB. Braunschweig 1992, p. 16-36, p. 49ff.
- Dyck, Walter: Katalog mathematischer und mathematisch-physikalischer Modelle, Apparate und Instrumente. München 1892 (Nachdruck: Hildesheim, Zürich, New York 1994), p. 152
- Horsburgh, E. M.: „Calculating machines”, in: Institution of engineers and shipbuilders in Scotland, Bd. 63. Glasgow 1920, p. 117-162, p. 84-91
- Petzold, Hartmut: Rechnende Maschinen. Eine historische Untersuchung ihrer Herstellung und Anwendung vom Kaiserreich bis zur Bundesrepublik. Düsseldorf 1985, p. 123-128
- Trinks, Franz: „Geschichtliche Daten aus der Entwicklung der Rechenmaschine von Pascal bis zur ´Nova-Brunsviga´“, in: Braunschweiger GNC-Monatsschrift 14, 1927, Heft 7/8, p. 249-288
- Velde, Christophe Vande: „Known short crank Brunsviga machines", in: www.crisvandevel.de/bvb.htm
- Patents:
- DE 64925 [1892/1891] (W.T. Odhner: Neuerung an Rechenmaschinen)
- DE 7393 [1892/1891] (Königsberger und Co: Rechenmaschine)
- US 514725 [1894/1893]
- Further exemplars in the collection (1):