Carl Sontheimer

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Carl G. Sontheimer (1914-1998) was an American inventor and engineer best known for creating the original Cuisinart food processor.

Sontheimer was born in New York but raised in France. He returned to the U.S. to attend MIT, where he received an engineering degree. Before developing the food processor in the early 1970s, he invented a number of other devices, including a microwave-based direction finder used during NASA's moon program. He and his wife sold the Cuisinart company to an investment group in 1987 for $42 million. The company is now owned by Conair.

References

Biography from an MIT "inventor of the week" site

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Name	Sontheimer, Carl
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Short description	American inventor
Date of birth	1914
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Date of death	1998
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