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6 unusual facts about Fredrik Rosing Bull


Fredrik Rosing Bull

His machine was substantially better than its competition, Hollerith and Powers, through the mechanism of punched card pre-selection.

This team provided several and more effective new ideas the Bull machine, causing it to be superior to the Hollerith's one used then, the IBM precursor.

Fredrik then signed a contract with society Oka, led by Reidar Knutsen, which took over the costs of manufacturing and marketing.

Among other things, he collaborated with Gerhard Armauer Hansen who discovered Mycobacterium leprae the causative agent of leprosy, in the investigation of the effects of leprosy in the eyes.

At the same time, Bull had contacted an old friend from high school by Nordstrand, Reidar Knutsen who headed the company Oka.

Its patent rights were acquired by Oka, where Knutsen, loyal to the ideas of Bull, continued the expansion of the machine and the company.



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