Henry Wilde (engineer)

Henry Wilde (born 19 January 1833 in Manchester, † March 28, 1919 in Alderly Edge, Cheshire ) was a British engineer.

Life

Henry Wilde, a wealthy man from Manchester invented the self-charging dynamo, called " magnet - electric machine " or magneto-electric exciter. Often this invention Werner von Siemens is attributed, but they both made independently. Wilde was the first to publish his invention and his documents to have been delivered in 1866 by Michael Faraday to the Royal Society. The self-loading Dynamo replaced the permanent magnets in earlier drafts with electromagnets and thus created an improvement in performance. The machine was at that time a lot of attention, especially since Wilde in spectacular demonstrations the ability of his machine vorführte by so iron bars brought to melt.

Academic donations

Wilde was in 1859 a member of the Lit & Phil Society and its president from 1894 to 1896. Considered as a patron of science funding. Among other things, gave, gave and he promoted:

  • Wilde Memorial Lecture at the Lit & Phil Society
  • The Prix Wilde, ( price of the Académie des Sciences in Paris)
  • A donation to the Institute of Electrical Engineers, Benevolent Fund
  • A reading and a scholarship at Oxford University
  • A professorship at Oxford University
  • Two dynamos at the Clarendon laboratories, 1888.
  • Henry Wilde Prize in Philosophy, Oxford

The rest of his fortune he left in his will the Oxford University.

Use his dynamo

First, his Dynamo by the Royal Navy was used to supply luminaries. The dynamo is also preferably used in the electroplating.

Wild process

The named after him Wilde process is a method of copper plating of pressure rollers, which he had patented in 1875. Here, the dynamo is used to provide the power for the copper plating and to mix either the electrolyte or to rotate the workpiece. This process allows a uniform thickness of the copper, which is indispensable in the print shop.

Complaints to authorship

Wilde began a series of complaints about its authorship to the Dynamo justified. He even went so far as to the authorship of the word " dynamo " by the Siemens brothers to challenge ( Wilde wrote Golding Bird authorship to ). When the Royal Society was trying to give him their highest award the Albert Medal, Wilde replied with a letter from his lawyer, in which he complained that they did not recognize him as the sole inventor. Nevertheless awarded the medal in the RSA in 1900.

Awards

The dedication of the Albert Medal of the Wild was awarded in 1900 by the RSA is:

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