Count on Chemnitz: From the Adding Machine to the Supercomputer
Companion Volume to the Special Exhibition from June 16 to September 9, 2012
The industrial tradition of Chemnitz is usually associated first with the textile industry as well as machinery and vehicle manufacturing. Only on closer inspection does the viewer discover the significance of office technology, ...
which, since the early 20th century, not only created many thousands of jobs in the city but also provided a reliable backbone for the regional export economy. What began with typewriters soon developed into a wide range of calculating technology - mechanical, electrical, and eventually electronic. The Robotron brand owed more to Karl-Marx-Stadt than it may seem, not merely because the headquarters of the combine were located in Dresden at the time.
Hrsg. von Friedrich Naumann. - Chemnitz : Zweckverband Sächsisches Industriemuseum, 2012. - 145 pages : Illustrations
(INDUSTRIEarchäologie : Studien zur Erforschung, Dokumentation und Bewahrung von Quellen zur Industriekultur ; 12)
