Adolph Giesl-Gieslingen

Adolph Giesl - Gieslingen ( born September 7, 1903 in Trento, Tyrol, † 11 February 1992 in Vienna ) was an Austrian locomotive designer and technician.

Life

Giesl Gieslingen studied at the Technical University of Vienna, where he received his diploma in 1925 as engineer. In the same year he began his service as a design engineer in the Floridsdorfer locomotive factory, where he was involved in the construction of the series 214. Director Arno Demmer sent him in 1929 to the United States, where he remained until 1938. He learned there met his wife, whom he married in New York in 1933. After his return he became assistant to Demmer and after the Second World War, chief designer of the Floridsdorfer locomotive factory.

In 1946 he resigned his position as Honorary Professor at the Technical University in Vienna, succeeding Johann Řihošek to. He developed the Giesl ejector for steam locomotives, which he patented and let distribute in cooperation with the Schoeller- Bleckmann works. Giesl later published several books on the theme of steam locomotive technology in the Viennese publishing Slezak.

Works

  • Lokomotiv - athletes. History, performance and cornering of the six-and seven couplers. Publisher Slezak, Vienna 1976, ISBN 3-900134-27-8.
  • The era after Gölsdorf. The last three decades of the Austrian steam locomotive design. Publisher Slezak, Vienna 1981, ISBN 3-900134-37-5.
  • Anatomy of the steam locomotive International. Publisher Slezak, Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-85416-089-5.
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