1898 |
First Polar expedition by Dr. Hermann Anschütz - Idea: to find a new travel route to USA via the North Pole with a submarine |
1904 |
Invention and patenting of the first gyro compass “GYROSCOPE” |
1905 |
Founding of ANSCHÜTZ & CO in Kiel |
1907 |
The world's first gyro compass in operation |
1912 |
The first three gyro compass on board a ship |
1920 |
World's first autopilot for ships (“Iron Helmsman”) |
1925 |
Start of production of the two-gyrosphere compass (developed with help of Max Schuler, Prof. Albert Einstein) |
1930 |
Dr. Anschütz-Kaempfe transfers his majority shares to Carl Zeiss |
1945 |
Destruction and dismantling of the factory during World War II |
1952 |
Reconstruction of the Anschütz factory in Kiel-Wik |
1952 |
Further development of the gyro compass and beginning of production for commercial shipping; around 90 employees |
1956 |
Development of an autopilot which controls the ship's heading on an electro-mechanical basis |
1964 |
Development of a horizon gyro system; about 400 employees |
1969 |
Development of a gyro compass with scaleddown gyrosphere |
1969 |
Development of the first electrical autopilot |
1974 |
Development of the first computer supported course and track controller |
1976 |
Incorporation of the sister company Zeiss Ikon AG, Kiel with their cinemascope product program into Anschütz & Co. GmbH |
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The company employs about 1,300 people in Kiel |
1980 |
Development of a heading reference, 3-axial stabilized platform for technical research and naval applications |
1982 |
Development of an "adaptive autopilot" |
1985 |
Development of microprocessor-controlled navigation and steering control systems |
1988 |
Development of a navigation and information display for the "modern bridge" |
1991 |
Introduction of a product line for sophisticated seagoing yachts |
1991 |
Development of navigation and planning system |
1995 |
Raytheon Company, USA, acquires the nautical and cinema product line of Anschütz & Co. GmbH. New company name: Raytheon Anschütz GmbH |
1995 |
Introduction of the modular bridge design IBS |
1996 |
Introduction of the Electronic Sea Chart |
1996 |
Raytheon Anschütz acquires Standard Radio, Sweden |
1998 |
Introduction of the new Pathfinder/ST MK 2 Radar Generation |
2000 |
Relocation of Radar and ECDIS production to Kiel |
2003 |
Introduction of the new Gyro Compass-Series Standard 22 |
2010 |
Development of new adaptive NautoPilot 5000 series |
2011 |
Development of the new NautoSteer AS CAN-bus steering control system |
2012 |
The newly developed Synapsis Intelligent Bridge Contol system is the world's first IMO-certified Integrated Navigation System |
2013 |
Introduction of the first maintenance-free gyro compass - Horizon MF |
2014 |
Development of the NautoScan NX network radar transceivers |
2015 |
Raytheon Anschütz opens Service Center in Panama |
2016 |
Next Level Navigation: SYNAPSIS NX Integrated Navigation System |
2017 |
Introduction of the first user-defined ECDIS - Synapsis ECDIS NX |
2018 |
Introduction of the new Radar NX software |
2019 |
Continuing the Anschütz tradition with the new Standard22 NX Gyro Compass |
2020 |
Fusion of Raytheon Company and United Technologies: Raytheon Technologies |