Jakob Christof Rad, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jakob Christof Rad

entrepreneur and inventor (1799-1871)

Date of Birth: 25-Mar-1799

Place of Birth: Rheinfelden, Aargau, Switzerland

Date of Death: 13-Oct-1871

Profession: entrepreneur, inventor

Nationality: Switzerland

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Jakob Christof Rad (25 March 1799, in Rheinfelden – 13 October 1871, in Vienna), was a Swiss-born physician and industrial manager.
Sometimes appearing as the Anglicised, Jacob Christoph, Rad, among many other professional activities, was a director of a sugar factory in Datschitz in Moravia in 1843, and invented the process and associated machinery for cutting large block sugar into manageable uniform pieces (and so is credited with "invention" of the sugar cubes). He had a sweet tooth growing up.