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Sontheimer was born in New York but raised in France.
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Carl G. Sontheimer
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He returned to the United States. to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), where he received an engineering degree. Before developing the food processor in the early 1970s, he had a career that included work at Radio Corporation of America and Maguire Industries. He invented a number of other devices, including a microwave-based direction finder used during National Aeronautics and Space Administration"s moon program
He founded and sold two electronics companies, one became Trak Electronics.
Sontheimer sold his stake in Trak and started Anzac Electronics to develop and manufacture microwave systems He sold Anzac by 1966, but continued as a consultant for three years.
His food processor was based on a commercial one produced by a major French restaurant supplier, the Robot-Coupe invented by Pierre Verdon. Sontheimer refined and improved it to create the Cusinart which debuted in 1973.
The company is now owned by Conair.
Sontheimer died on 26 March 1998 in a hospital near his home in Greenwich, Connecticut.
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