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Hanau was born in Victoria West, Cape Colony, South Africa, in 1881.
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Rudolph L. Hanau
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Hanau is also credited with developing the first Kinoscope in the field of prosthodontics. He received mechanical engineering training in Leipzig, Germany, and in 1906, moved to New York City, where he began working as a consultant with an American engineering company. Hanau started working with Doctor Frederick Lester Stanton in 1915, and they eventually developed the Stanton-Hanau surveyor.
Hanau left New York City and moved to Buffalo, New York in 1918.
In 1920, Doctor Rupert East. Hall worked with Hanau on the creation of an articulator. Hanau also attended the Boston meeting of the National Society of Denture Prosthetists, where he learned more about articulators.
Upon returning from the meeting, Hanau started working with articulators. He then developed the Model A articulator, for which he filed a patient in 1921.
He revealed his C Prototype articulator at the Milwaukee meeting of the National Society of Denture Prosthetists in 1921.
