Rudolf Goldschmidt

Rudolf Goldschmidt ( born March 19, 1876 in Neubukow, † October 30, 1950 in London ) was a German electrical engineer, inventor and university teachers.

Life

Goldschmidt graduated in 1898 from his studies. In the following decade he worked in England among others at Westinghouse. Then he returned to Germany and became a professor at the Technical University of Darmstadt. During this period he developed the Goldschmidt high frequency telegraph for overseas stations Eilvese, which was used for direct wireless communication between Germany and the United States of America, wherein the compound in 1914 with a ceremonial exchange of telegrams between the Kaiser Wilhelm II and Woodrow Wilson was inaugurated.

In the 1920s, Goldschmidt worked in an industrial laboratory in Berlin, where he met, among others, Albert Einstein, with whom he developed a hearing aid in 1928, which was patented in 1934 on both names. In the same year Goldschmidt emigrated to England, where he maintained his correspondence with Einstein until his death.

Rudolf Goldschmidt also taught as a professor at the Technical University Berlin.

With his self-developed tone wheel ( a beat recipient ) succeeded for the first time playback of modulated undamped oscillations, but with too large disturbances still was not applied in practice.