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What happened before 1945?
The company’s founder, Dr. Heinz Müller, started his
career as an electrical engineer in a small air-craft construction company. Within this company he was, amongst other engineers, instrumental in developing the electronic artificial horizon for
aircraft-cockpits – an invention which today is standard in all air-craft-cockpits.
The artificial horizon shows the pilot, if and to which degree his air-craft is inclining along the longitudinal
and lateral axis in relationship to the horizon.
The position of the artificial horizon-sphere corresponds to the sphere of the real horizon and informs the pilot about the angle of attack and the slope of the air-craft.
Under good wheather conditions, the
pilot gets the information about the flight altitude by looking at the horizon, but in extreme flight conditions and in clouds
he is dependent on the artificial horizon.
Looking for new challenges, Dr. Müller founded his own company in 1945, and
in memory of this invention named it “horizont” (English: horizon)
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