{"id":3567,"date":"2013-03-26T09:35:55","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T09:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.madas.ch\/?page_id=3567"},"modified":"2022-03-16T09:09:25","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T08:09:25","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.madas.ch\/?page_id=3567","title":{"rendered":"About the author"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 hundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-overflow:visible;\" ><\/div><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_2 1_2 fusion-one-half fusion-column-first\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;width:48%; margin-right: 4%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.madas.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/Portrait_GSA1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6326 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.madas.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/Portrait_GSA1.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait_GSA\" width=\"660\" height=\"880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.madas.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/Portrait_GSA1-200x267.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.madas.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/Portrait_GSA1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.madas.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/Portrait_GSA1-400x533.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.madas.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/Portrait_GSA1-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.madas.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/Portrait_GSA1.jpg 660w, https:\/\/www.madas.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/Portrait_GSA1-225x300@2x.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_2 1_2 fusion-one-half fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;width:48%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><br \/>\nThe owner of this website is named Gerald Saudan from Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>He started becoming fascinated with the Madas machines when he was ten years old. At this time, there was no computer science, no network computing, no enterprise computing, but there was a need for tools allowing making easily calculations. The &#8220;MADAS&#8221; were the ideal support for accounts departments or retail trade.<\/p>\n<p>He has been working for many years as an IT engineer and, after all that time spent in the digital domain, he returned to his first passion. He decided to spend more time for preserving the collective memory of H.W. Egli AG Company, the firm which created the most perfect mechanical calculators.<\/p>\n<p>Many machines have been destroyed for some decades, particularly the &#8220;MADAS&#8221; models, while people who possessed them, at home or in the office, did not know how important it is to preserve this part of cultural heritage.<\/p>\n<p>It is a small tribute to all the engineers who developed tremendous skills during the first part of the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century.<b><\/b><br \/>\n<div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-2 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last fusion-column-no-min-height\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:30px;margin-bottom:40px;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-shadow\" style=\"--awb-height:20px;--awb-amount:20px;background:radial-gradient(ellipse at 50% -50% , #ffffff 0px, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) 80%) repeat scroll 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);background:-webkit-radial-gradient(ellipse at 50% -50% , #ffffff 0px, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) 80%) repeat scroll 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);background:-moz-radial-gradient(ellipse at 50% -50% , #ffffff 0px, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) 80%) repeat scroll 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);background:-o-radial-gradient(ellipse at 50% -50% , #ffffff 0px, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) 80%) repeat scroll 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madas.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3567"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madas.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madas.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madas.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madas.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3567"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.madas.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8781,"href":"https:\/\/www.madas.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3567\/revisions\/8781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madas.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}