Baden has always been a place of inventors and designers, of successful entrepreneurship and technical progress. But in addition to the tinkerers who became famous, such as Karl Freiherr von Drais and Carl Benz, there were also quite a number of Badeners that have been forgotten, even though they advanced technical progress.

Did you know that one of the early aviation pioneers worked in Emmendingen? Or that one of the most important early German locomotive designers was born in Baden-Baden?

In this book, Heinz Straub introduces seven Baden personalities from various technical fields who are more or less only known to experts, although they rendered outstanding services to technical progress in Baden and beyond.

From the content:

• Carl Friedrich Meerwein - a forgotten aviation pioneer

• Hofrat Johann Lorenz Boeckmann and the first German telegram

• The water column machines of Georg von Reichenbach

• Kommerzienrat Newhouse - an early proponent of a Baden railway

• Emil Keßler - one of the first German locomotive builders

• Albert Bürklin - poet-engineer and calendar maker

• Rigid airship construction in Mannheim by the industrialist Dr. Karl Lanz