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The Semmering railway is not only inseparably linked to Ghega, but also to
Wilhelm von Engerth.
Engerth had been professor of mechanical engineering at the Joanneum in
Graz since 1843, later he joined the Department of Railway Mechanics of the
Ministry of Trade and Industry. As a result of a competition, Engerth devel-
oped the world’s first usable mountain locomotive for the Semmering railway.
Engerth locomotives were not only used on the Semmering, but also on the
karst section of the Southern Railway.
Finally, Engerth locomotives, developed in a large-wheeled version for
lowland routes, were also used outside Austria, especially in France and
Switzerland. Josef Herr, from 1852 to 1857 professor of higher mathemat-
ics, theoretical and practical geometry at the Joanneum, was also close-
ly associated with railway construction. He gained his first professional
experience during the construction of the Hungarian Central Railway, the
Danube survey and the Semmering railway. Later he was head of the first
special school for higher geodesy and spherical astronomy in Europe at the
Vienna Polytechnic. In 1866/1867 he was the first elected rector of the
Technical University in Vienna. Fig.: Graz main railway station
in 1844. From: Demarteau,
Malerischtechnischer Atlas
der k. k. Staatseisenbahnstrecke
von Mürzzuschlag bis Gratz
in Steiermark (TU Graz Archive).
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Nikola Tesla and the Graz Tech
- Titel
- Nikola Tesla and the Graz Tech
- Autoren
- Uwe Schichler
- Josef W. Wohinz
- Verlag
- Verlag der Technischen Universität Graz
- Ort
- Graz
- Datum
- 2020
- Sprache
- deutsch
- Lizenz
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-3-85125-688-1
- Abmessungen
- 20.0 x 25.0 cm
- Seiten
- 124
- Kategorie
- Technik
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- 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