Jakub Kryštof Rad
Austrian businessman
Died when: 72 years 202 days (870 months)Star Sign: Aries
Jakub Kryštof Rad, traditionally Anglicised Jacob Christoph Rad (25 March 1799, in Rheinfelden – 13 October 1871, in Vienna), was a Swiss-born physician and industrial manager.
He had many other professional activities, was a director of a sugar factory in Datschitz, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic) 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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