Jakub Kryštof Rad

Entrepreneur and inventor (1799-1871)

  • Fame42.5
  • Momentum3.7
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Lived 1799–1871, aged 72Switzerland
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    1799–1871
    Aged 72
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Updated 2026-06-18

Jakob Christof Rad was a Swiss-born Austrian physician and industrial manager. He had many other professional activities, was a director of a sugar factory in Dačice, Moravia, Austria-Hungary in 1843, and invented the process and associated machinery for cutting large block sugar into manageable uniform pieces. Rad is credited with the invention of sugar cubes.

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