Braun Calculator - Black

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In 1981 he became professor of industrial design at the Hochschule fϋr bildende Kϋnste, in Hamburg. Juggling between his design obligations at Braun and his teaching duties at the Art College he offered terms of up to five months for students to work with him in the Braun’s product design department.

The second calculating machine is commonly named the Leupold-Braun-Vayringe machine . This is because the idea of the calculating mechanism was proposed by Leupold, the construction was by Braun, and the actual manufacturing was made by Vayringe. I love Rams’ use of color, accents, and materials with archive pieces like the ET 33 calculator. So much restraint in terms of aesthetics but in the same vein, bright and bold decisions like the yellow "=" button. The gloss on the button faces is magic. The Series 9 Shaver (2019)

The machine is commonly named Leupold-Braun-Vayringe machine, due to the fact, that the idea of the calculating mechanism was proposed by Leupold, the construction was made by Braun, while the actual manufacturing was made by Vayringe. There is another calculating machine of Braun, still preserved in Technischen Museum in Wien (see the upper images), which had an engraved dedication to the Kaiser Karl VI and also the self-conscious signature “Antonius Braun S.C.M. Opticus et mathematicus”, with the year of completion in 1727. There is information however, that this machine is not the original one, made by Anton Braun in 1720s, but a copy, made in 1766 by his son—Anton Braun the Younger (1708-1776), who just like his father was a skilful optician and watchmaker. In 1962 Rams was appointed director of Braun’s team of young designers. Having established its own design resource, the company became progressively less reliant on advice from the Ulm tutors. Instead Rams divided the responsibility for the development of different products among the young designers in his team. Gerd A. Müller was responsible for kitchen appliances, Roland Weigend for scales, model-making and product graphics, while Rams concentrated on radios, record players, torches and projectors. The machine’s six-place setting mechanism is under the form of six circular segments arranged in a circle on the top, with nine levers each (for digits 1 to 9), which move the relevant pins radially outwards on the pin-wheels below.

This Braun calculator is the reissue of the Braun ET66 calculator, one of Braun's most iconic designs, which was collaboratively designed by Dietrich Lubs and Dieter Rams and originally released in 1987. The Braun ET66 calculator is considered to be the pinnacle of the “less but better” philosophy thanks to its simple, rectangular design with convex, circular buttons. includes a protective slide cover. Battery included. Thanks to its easy-to-use buttons and classic visual language, it had a huge impact on calculating, becoming an everyday household item. Anton Braun is known to have invented one of the first calculating machines which inspired future calculators like Arithmometer . Circular SundialRams refined the design language he and Gugelot had adopted for the SK4 in the following year’s Atelier 1 hi-fi system and L1 loud speakers. Until then stereo systems had consisted of single units with integrated speakers, but Rams separated the speakers to make the receiver unit more compact. Subsequent developments in stereophonic technology ensured that this too soon became a standard. Determined to develop a coherent ‘family’ of products for Braun, Rams designed the Atelier 1 and L1 in the same proportions as the SK4. Consequently they could be used together with the L1 being added to the SK4 to amplify its sound. He then placed the L2 speaker on a slender metal stand – another innovation which was swiftly copied by Braun’s competitors. Anton Braun, an accomplish engineer of mechanics and a mathematician, was the creator of the first calculator for all four mathematical calculations. 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. 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.

Remarkably, through the years, Rams remained as provocative and questioning a product design leader as ever, in his quest for “good design”. ’I think that good designers must always be avant-gardists, always one step ahead of the times,’ he said in a speech to the Braun supervisory board in 1980. ‘They should – and must – question everything generally thought to be obvious. They must have an intuition for people’s changing attitudes. For the reality in which they live, for their dreams, their desires, their worries, their needs, their living habits. They must also be able to assess realistically the opportunities and bounds of technology.’ Artists and designers all around the globe follow his 10 Principles of Good Design, which continue to inspire a whole generation even today. The machine had a single central adapting segment that allowed the number of special parts to be reduced. Below the setting is a set over vertical cylinders with nine rods at different lengths rising to the top. Although the machine did not function properly in every aspect, the idea of a central adapting segment was innovative. It was used extensively for several mechanical calculators 200 years later, for example, the Arithmometer . The Arithmometer is an early calculating machine, built in 1820 by Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar of France. 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 )

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Anton Braun returned to Vienna in 1723 and in 1724 he was appointed for the position of Kammeropticus et Mathematicus at the Austrian court, due to his outstanding precision mechanical and mathematical skills. Three years later, he sat down as a candidate to be the Imperial instrument maker. He won the title against an impressive number of competitors. He presented to the Emperor his advanced calculating machine, which he constructed in 1724 and which was already in use at the imperial court. Imperial Instrument Maker His legacy continues to live even today and encourages young designers to create products that are innovative, functional, long-lasting, and, of course, aesthetic.