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Postscript
References For these functional requirements, the following prerequisites and test fa-
cilities are available:
• Shielding attenuation: 100 dB
• Alternating voltage cascade: 1500 kV, 50 Hz, 1500 kVA
• Direct voltage cascade: 1500 kV, 20 mA continuous
• Impulse voltage generator: 2900 kV lightning impulse
1800 kV Switching surge negative
1400 kV switching surge positive
• Insulating-oil processing and vacuum plant
• 1100-kV bushing with test vessel
• Open-air test area for tests under wet conditions
While architectural critics initially suspected futuristic perspectives in the
technical design of the high-voltage laboratory as a symbol of the hopes asso-
ciated with technology in the 1960s /1/, today it must be stated that the ar-
chitecture of the hall has not lost its formal and constructive fascination after
almost 50 years. On the contrary, in its timeless architecture characterised by
function, it has become an example of high aesthetic quality.
By naming the high-voltage hall after the name of the pioneer of alternating
current technology, Nikola Tesla, on the occasion of his 150th birthday on 10
July 2006, interest is directed to a great scientist of electrical engineering and
at the same time to an exciting monument to technology.
The author would like to thank Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Heiner Hierzegger
for information about the competition and Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Werner Lick for
information about the technical features of the building.
/1/ Friedrich Achleitner, Österreichischer Architektur im 20. Jahrhundert,
Band II, Salzburg 1983
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Nikola Tesla and the Graz Tech
- Title
- Nikola Tesla and the Graz Tech
- Authors
- Uwe Schichler
- Josef W. Wohinz
- Publisher
- Verlag der Technischen Universität Graz
- Location
- Graz
- Date
- 2020
- Language
- German
- License
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-3-85125-688-1
- Size
- 20.0 x 25.0 cm
- Pages
- 124
- Category
- Technik
Table of contents
- Editor’s foreword 8
- Nikola Tesla and the Graz Tech 11
- The Graz Tech: A tradition of innovation 12
- Nikola Tesla: Milestones in his life 14
- Nikola Tesla: Student at the Graz Tech 20
- Nikola Tesla: Honorary doctor of technical sciences 28
- People shape the development of the Tech 37
- References 38
- Nikola Tesla: Visionary and Inventor Contributions to scientific and industrial development 41
- Development of electrical engineering from 1850 to 1950 42
- The problem of the commutator 43
- The rotating magnetic field: Polyphase alternating current system 43
- The Niagara Falls power station: Direct current or alternating current? 44
- High frequency, the Tesla transformer and Wardenclyffe Tower 54
- Remote-controlled ships and robots 62
- Hotel room 3327 in New York 64
- Tesla’s innovations: visible in the 21st century 65
- References 65
- Constant development and unrelenting progress is the goal… Stages in the development of the Universalmuseum Joanneum 67
- The main reasons behind its establishment and their classification in the history of museums 70
- Original scope 72
- Outline of the course of development 73
- The early Joanneum (1811 to 1887) 75
- The Joanneum from 1888 to 2002 82
- The State Museum or Universalmuseum Joanneum GmbH: Stepping out into the Future 87
- References 90
- The architecture of the high-voltage laboratory: An exciting architectural monument to technology 91
- Design principle 94
- Tasks and test facilities 97
- Postscript 98
- References 98
- ‘ Technology is the pride of our age’ (Peter Rosegger) A technological history of Graz in the 19th century 99
- References 118
- List of authors 120