Edmund Heusinger von Waldegg
Edmund Heusinger von Waldegg ( born May 12, 1817 Today's Bad Schwalbach, † February 2nd 1886 in Hannover ) was a German mechanical engineering and railway engineering.
Origin
He came from a Nassau rectory and had, as his father could not afford to pay for his studies, first complete an apprenticeship as a bookseller in Hanover. Here - and then in Leipzig - he made contacts and gained experience in the publishing and the publishing sector, which was a starting point for his subsequent extensive publication activity in the field of railway engineering, among others. In addition, he invented a forerunner of the rotary printing process. In Leipzig he studied physics, mathematics and mechanics. In addition, he experienced there, the opening of the Leipzig- Dresden railway, which won him for railway purposes.
Railway engineer
In 1840 he participated in the assembly of a delivered in individual parts of England Locomotive on the Gutehoffnungshütte in Sterkrade and escorted the vehicle to the Taunus Railway. In 1841 he became foreman, 1846 Head of the Central Workshop. Here he developed a precursor of the disc wheel.
Inventions
He invented in 1849 a new type of control for steam locomotives that Heusinger control. They became the most popular worldwide. Since the Belgian Egide Walschaerts has invented this independent and with 5 years earlier by him already in 1844, it is called outside the German-speaking world as Walschaert control.
He invented beyond the D- train - car, the " Heusinger - car," the possessed, unlike the compartment car until then predominantly used in Europe by a side corridor inside the car. Order to address the outside of the carriage along the leading and only usable for train crew at great risk footboard was unnecessary. The Hessian Ludwig Railway put this new type of car a first time, the Prussian State Railway led him in 1891 a standard.
His other inventions included a box rail system for the army.
Publicist
Leading edited by Edmund Heusinger von Waldegg manual was especial for railway engineering, published by Wilhelm Engelmann in Leipzig in five volumes:
- Vol 1: the railroads (1st edition 1870)
- Vol 2: The railway wagon construction in its whole extent (1st edition 1874)
- Vol 3: The Locomotivbau (1st edition 1875)
- Vol 4: The technique of operation with signaling and workshop equipment (1st edition 1876)
- Vol 5: Construction and operation of the secondarily and tertiary pathways including the floating wire and cable cars (1st edition 1878)
Given the rapid pace of technological development revised editions were required in quick succession, in which the volumes were 1 to 3 and 5 split as a result of the growing material wealth in part volumes, some of them as so-called "Atlas volumes," with illustrations and drawings.
In addition to numerous articles and publications own he founded the "Organ of the progress of the railway sector in technical relationship ", and later the official organ of the Association of German Railway Administrations.