Jakob Christof Rad
ENTREPRENEUR AND INVENTOR (1799-1871)
Jakub Krystof Rad; Jakub Kryštof Rad
Jakub Kryštof Rad, traditionally Anglicised Jacob Christoph Rad (25 March 1799, in Rheinfelden – 13 October 1871, in Vienna), was a Swiss-born physician and industrial manager. He had many other professional activities, was a director of a sugar factory in Datschitz, Moravia, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic) in 1843, and invented the process and associated machinery for cutting large block sugar into manageable uniform pieces.