The German mechanic, goldsmith and inventor Christian Ferdinand Oechsle (1774-1852) was a universal genius. After an apprenticeship as a goldsmith in Öhringen, Ferdinand Oechsle moved to Pforzheim in 1794 and became a cabinet master in the Dennig goldware factory there in 1800. Here he founded a mechanical workshop in 1810 and manufactured weighbridges, musical instruments and physical and hydraulic equipment for laboratories and universities. In 1820, he was appointed Grand Ducal Gold Controller. His many inventions included a safe oxyhydrogen blower for soldering work and the "wheel of life" (a predecessor of the cinematograph), which he published in Dingler's Polytechnisches Journal from 1825. He also ran a spirit distillery.
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