Albert Butz

Albert Butz was a Swiss immigrant to the United States who worked as a mechanical inventor on early automatic control devices.

Albert Butz was a Swiss-born American inventor whose work is the origin of Honeywell. In 1885 he patented the 'damper flapper', an early automatic thermostat mechanism for controlling indoor temperature. He founded the Butz Thermo-Electric Regulator Company to sell it. His patents and that early business were the starting point of the automated controls company that later became Honeywell.

Albert Butz was born in 1849 in Switzerland.

Butz was born in Switzerland in 1849 and died in 1905. His Butz Thermo-electric Regulator Company became Honeywell through a series of reorganisations, name changes and mergers.