Hans Hautsch

Hans Hautsch (born January 4, 1595 in Nuremberg , died January 31, 1670 Nuremberg) was a toolmaker, like his father, Antoni (1563-1627), and his grandfather, Kilian (-1570).[1][2]

He married Magdalena (born 1603) on June 25, 1621, the daughter of the carpenter Jacob Flexlein. They had a daughter and five sons: Georg (1624, toolmaker), Gottfried (1634-1703), and Johann Andreas (1638). Gottfried invented the conical ignition for pistols in 1702, making them three times as fast.

In 1649, Hans Hautsch built a wheelchair lift for hospital patients. Shortly thereafter, he built a four-wheeled clockwork-driven mechanical car, which allegedly drove 1.6 km/h by itself.[3] He delivered another triumphal car, which was specified to be driven by clockwork. But in 1651 Georg Philipp Harsdörffer (also the French traveler Balthasar de Monconys in 1666) contradicted this in his Journal des Voyages, where he explained that a boy operated a crank inside.

References
  1. Franz Maria Feldhaus: Hautsch, Hans. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Band 50, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1905, S. 84.
  2. Pierre Béhar: Colloque International d'Etudes Humanistes. Rodopi, 1993, ISBN 978-9-051-83258-7, S. 361 (link in Google Books).
  3. Zitiert nach G. Schaetzel, Königlicher Postoffizial: Motor-Posten. Technik und Leistungsfähigkeit der heutigen Selbstfahrersysteme und deren Verwendbarkeit für den öffentlichen Verkehr, Verlag von R. Oldenbourg, München 1901. According to some sources, in 1650 the future King Karl Gustav of Sweden bought the vehicle from Hautsch for 500 Reichstaler. However, there is no document in the Swedish (Royal) National Library. See http://www.digitalis.uni-koeln.de/Feldhausm/feldhausm1263-1274.pdf p. 1265.
  4. W. Hornung: Die Entwicklung der Feuerlöschpumpe vom ausgehenden Mittelalter bis zum 18. Jahrhundert. Eine technikgeschichtliche Betrachtung (3. Part). (Archive from 13. January 2015) In: VFDB-Zeitschrift. Nr. 4, 1960, S. 133–141.
  5. Inventions and discoveries in Nuremberg until 1806 (accessed 13 January 2015).
  6. Streuglanz in der Oeconomischen Encyclopädie (1773 - 1858) by J. G. Krünitze. In kruenitz1.uni-trier.de. Accessed on 13 January 2015.

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