Wilhelm Engerth

Wilhelm Freiherr von Engerth ( born May 26, 1814 Pless in Silesia, † September 4, 1884 in Leesdorf, community Baden bei Wien, Lower Austria ) was an Austrian architect and engineer. He is best known as the developer of the first practicable mountain locomotive. For his services he was made a baron in 1875.

Biography

Engerth studied since 1834 in Vienna until the construction, then the Mechanical Engineering and went on as an architect to Galicia, where he was soon entrusted with numerous orders. He returned to Vienna in order to devote himself to the engineering, became assistant to the mechanics at the Polytechnic, then forming supplier professor of descriptive geometry and in 1844 Professor of Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering at the Joanneum in Graz.

For the construction of the Semmering Railway, he constructed a tender - truck - locomotive so perfectly met the requirements that since the Engerth system has repeatedly been applied.

Engerth was appointed technical advice from the Directorate General of Railways in 1850, later serving in the Austrian Ministry of Commerce, the Department of Mechanical Engineering, joined in 1855 at the state railway company as a central director and later became its Director-General.

In 1859 he was a member of the customs commission of inquiry in 1860 and he left the government service. He worked on the organization of technical studies in Austria and was also patron of the Danube regulation. He invented the Schwimmtor through which the Danube channel is protected against the ingress of ice. At the Vienna World Exhibition in 1873, becoming the head of the entire engineering and served as chief engineer of the construction of the exhibition halls. He campaigned for the tunneling of the Arlberg. In 1874 he was called to the mansion of the Austrian Imperial Council and raised in 1875 in a baron. He died on 4 September 1884 in Leesdorf. His brother was the painter Eduard von Engerth.

In 1886 ( 20th District ) was named after him in the Engerthstraße Vienna Brigittenau.

Publications

  • Wilhelm Engerth: The locomotive of the State Railway over the Semmering: Results of testing d d chain coupling at d price locomotive Bavaria, discussion constructions d d Wilhelm Engerth: Pictorial representations of simple machines in isometric projection / designed by Wilhelm Engerth. Vienna 1845.
  • Wilhelm Engerth Bankruptcy locomotive and description of several projektirten mountain locomotive; with an atlas of 13 Kupfertaf. and a lithographed. Length profiles d Semmering Railway. From: Journal of the Austrian engineering association.. 1853 and 1854 ( Umschlagt.: Semmering Locomotive ).
  • Wilhelm Engerth: cars and trucks, tender equipment, workshops device and tools. Drawings from the KK Austrian State Railway Company. Vienna 1857.
  • William of Engerth: The floating gate to shut off the Vienna Danube Canales. Vienna 1884.

Awards

  • Order of Leopold (1854 )
Franz Eybl Engerth locomotive Weltausstellung 1873 Wien Order of Leopold (Belgium) Neue Deutsche Biographie Integrated Authority File
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