Gisbert Kapp

Gisbert Kapp Johann Eduard ( born September 2, 1852 in Mauer bei Wien, Austria, † August 10 1922 in Birmingham, United Kingdom ) was an Austro- British electrical engineer. He was professor of electrical engineering at the University of Birmingham.

Life and work

As Gisbert Kapp was four years old, his father died. His mother Louisa, née Young (1829-1919) was as Louisa Cappiani a famous opera singer. He learned a mechanical engineer in Vienna. In 1875 he went to England, where he worked with Gwynne Pumps in Hammersmith. In 1879 he was Foreign Representatives of Hornsby & Co and traveled extensively through Europe.

In 1881 he attended the World Exhibition in Paris and decided to make his career in electrical engineering. He received British citizenship. From 1882 to 1884 he was director of staff employed on the construction of electrical products manufactured by RE Crompton & Co. in Chelmsford, which under his leadership, the findings of the brothers Edward ( Chief Engineer at Mather & Platt ) and John Hopkinson ( Hopkinsonsches Act, 1886) for the construction of electro-technical equipment recycled.

He married Teresa Krall (* 1864) from Vienna. On August 2, 1885 their first son Reginald Otto Kapp was born in Brentwood, Essex. Norman was born in 1887. In 1885, he came to prominence as Consulting Engineer in London independently, led the creation of numerous major companies and developed named after him Dynamo design ( Kappsche Dynamo design), were prepared by the in the wake of DC machines on the continent and in America.

His treatises and the Brothers Hopkinson gave information about the cheapest iron and copper ratios in electrical machines and enabled it to manufacture machines, which implemented more than 90 % of the mechanical energy into electrical energy (see Johann Kravogl 1867: 20%). There was thus the means to calculate machine advance. In 1894 he was elected Secretary General of the newly established VDE and moved to Berlin -Charlottenburg. Here he took part in the drafting of the safety of the association with decisive.

He was habilitated for electrical engineering at the Technische Hochschule Berlin- Charlottenburg in 1905 appointed the first professor of electrical engineering at the University of Birmingham. He was responsible for preparing the basis for the calculation and the construction of dynamos and alternators transformers ( Kappsches triangle) earned and recognized as one of the first the importance of the alternating current.

In 1975 in Vienna Landstrasse (3rd district) was named the Kappgasse after him.

Inventions

  • Automatic voltage regulation of the dynamo
  • AC power distribution with constant voltage
  • Saugdynamo for the return elec. railways
  • Phase shifter ( vibrator ), etc.

Publications

  • Electric Transmission of Energy; 1886, dt: Electric power transmission; 1891
  • Alternate - Current Machinery; 1889, dt: Transformers for AC and three-phase; 1895
  • Dynamos, Alternators and Transformers; 1893, dt 1894
  • Predestination of the Characteristic of a dynamo; German: dynamos for direct and alternating current; 1894
  • Modern Dynamos and Their Engines; German: Elektromechan. Constructions in 1898
  • AC transformers; In: Historical representations of electrical engineering, Volume 1, 1922
  • About the predetermination of the voltage drop in transformers; ibid
  • Transformers for single and multiphase currents: a treatise on Their theory, construction, and use; (3rd ed rev by Reginald O. Kapp. . ); London, Pitman, 1925
  • Transformers for AC and AC: An illustration of their theory, design and application; Berlin, 1907
  • The principles of electrical engineering and Their application; London, Arnold, 1916
  • Electricity; London, Williams & Norgate, 1912
  • Standards, regulations and guidelines of the Association of German Electrical Engineers registered tr. club; Berlin, Springer, 1904
  • Electromechanical Design: a collection of design examples and calculations of machinery and equipment for power; ( 2, verb and extended edition - Berlin:. . Springer, 1902)
  • Alternating electric currents; Leipzig, Leiner, 1900
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