Abstract
Publisher Summary This chapter provides a biographical sketch of Karl Ferdinand Braun born on June 6, 1850 in Fulda. He earned the doctorate cum laude in 1872 with a dissertation in acoustics and had begun to look for a job as a school teacher when his thesis advisor engaged Braun as his assistant. But the assistantship turned out to be a blind alley. After two years, Braun had enough and went back to his original plan to become a school teacher. He got a job at the well-known Thomas-Gymnasium in Leipzig, center of the German publishing industry and stayed there for three years. It was during these years that he published his only book; an amusing set of mathematical and scientific puzzles, experiments, and other entertainments for young people. It was during these same years, that he finally found time to write some experiments he must have initiated while he was still at Wurzburg.
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