Friedrich Wilhelm Eckhardt

Friedrich Wilhelm Eckhardt ( born February 25, 1892 in Kassel, † April 9, 1961 in Niederlehme ) was a German engineer and head of the design office of the Berliner Maschinenbau - Actien Society formerly L. Schwartzkopff.

Friedrich Wilhelm Eckhardt worked first at Henschel & Sohn and moved in 1916 to L. Schwartzkopff. In 1936 he became chief engineer.

He was instrumental in the designs of the steam locomotives of the series 41 and series 84. For the latter he developed named after him Schwartzkopff Eckhardt steering rack to improve Kurvenläufigkeit of steam locomotives.

He also published several books on the construction and design of steam locomotives.

Works

  • The construction of the steam locomotive and its calculation, copying systems 1952 Reprint: Transform Press, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-613-71348-2
  • Lokomotiv customer. H. 5 The chassis of steam locomotives, Fachbuchverlag Leipzig, 1957
  • Introduction to the theory of the steam locomotive for practitioners to self-instruction, Fachbuchverlag Leipzig, 1952
  • Designing of steam locomotives, Siemens, 1948
  • The chassis of steam locomotives, Trans Press, Berlin 1960
  • Engineer, inventor, engineer
  • German
  • Born in 1892
  • Died in 1961
  • Man
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