Biography of inventor fred kohnlen
Fred Kohler (author)
Fred Kohler (born 22 April ) is a German-born American inventor, author, and lecturer. He wrote about the human species becoming a "societal organism" (his original terminology) or super organism (in the popular modern usage) as a further development in the human evolution of life.
Biography
Early years
Kohler was born as Fritz Kohler[1] in Nuremberg, Germany in into a secular, middle-class family of mostly German-Jewish ancestry. His mother died when he was eight years old and his father died when he was eleven.
Biography of inventor fred kohnlen United States Israel. Recent changes. Portland State University. Fred Kohler is a German-born American inventor, author, and lecturer.Kohler, an only child, was granted a life-saving visa as an orphan to enter the USA in
After graduating from Stuyvesant High School in New York City in he was admitted to Cooper Union, a highly competitive, "tuition-free" college where he was, in , granted a degree in chemical engineering.
Kohler obtained American citizenship in Unable to join the Armed Forces in World War II because of eyesight problems, he engaged in war work as an engineer.
Kohler was married for several years in the s, but he has no children nor close relatives.
In he obtained an M.A. from Southern Oregon University in Ashland, Oregon.
Career
Industrial activity
- After World War II he started the Plastic Welding Company designing and building equipment for welding plastics.
Biography of inventor fred kohnlen and wife Wikiwand for Edge. Rankings Other Statistics. Forest Grove. Biography Charles Hernan Carreon is an American trial attorney best known for his involvement in a legal dispute between The Oatmeal webcomic and content aggregator FunnyJunk.- Director of Research and Design, Thermatool corporation
- Chief Engineer, Industrial Microwave Division of Eimac-Varian
Kohler continued to pursue his profession as a research engineer, as a designer of industrial electronic equipment, and as a consultant and lecturer. Kohler was granted many patents for various inventions in the course of his activities.
Kohler's achievement with the greatest technological impact was patent making possible the polyswitch, an automatically resetting circuit protection device which shuts off a circuit when a current overload is sensed but automatically resets when the surge is over, thus avoiding blown fuses and machine stoppages[2]
Kohler's resettable fuse is now a passive component of many batteries in computers, VCRs, cars, and a host of other products.
The cumulative sales of protective devices utilizing this material have run into several billions of dollars.
Biography of inventor fred kohnlen jr Occupations philosopher inventor. New pages. Biography [ edit ]. Occupations television actor voice actor film actor actor.Kohler derived no monetary rewards from this invention.
Philosophical writings
In Kohler published through the publishing house, Philosophical Library a book entitled Evolution and Human Destiny that he started writing in In this book Kohler argued that there is an integration process in evolution, homologous with other consolidation processes that have occurred in the evolution of life during previous epochs, that is leading in the human species towards the formation of a Super Organism on a higher level of complexity, which Kohler originally called a "Societal Organism." In the form presented, this was a novel concept in and met with considerable skepticism, but also some support.
Kohler's book has been recently re-introduced to a new generation by being digitized on the internet by the initiative of the Marine Biology Laboratory.[3] Now the concept of an emerging super organism is far more acceptable to the intellectual community.
In Kohler published on the internet through "Internet Archive" an essay entitled "Evolution and Human Destiny: Reflections of the Author Sixty Years after the Book was Written." In that essay he corrects the antiquated biology and chemistry of the original book, but re-affirms his central concepts.
Biography of inventor fred kohnlen books In this book Kohler argued that there is an integration process in evolution, homologous with other consolidation processes that have occurred in the evolution of life during previous epochs, that is leading in the human species towards the formation of a Super Organism on a higher level of complexity, which Kohler originally called a "Societal Organism. Whitman College. Log in. California State University - Bakersfield.He also discusses some unsolved problems in cosmology and expresses gratification that the most important concepts in Evolution and Human Destiny have largely been vindicated during his lifetime. He also reflects on his own life in that essay.
Recent activity
Kohler lived as an adult in New York, Hawaii, California, Arizona and in Ashland, Oregon where he resided from He traveled widely and enjoyed good physical and mental health through his 90s.
He enjoyed hiking on the Pacific Crest Trail and was active in discussions concerning the current status and future of humankind.