| 词条 | Gisbert Kapp |
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Gisbert Johann Eduard Kapp (2 September 1852, Mauer, Vienna – 10 August 1922, Birmingham) was an Austrian-English electrical engineer. His parents with Gisbert Kapp and Luisa Kapp-Young. After finishing his studies in Austria, Kapp moved to England where he was naturalized in 1881. He was awarded a Telford Medal in 1885/6.[1] In 1904 he was offered the position as the first Chair of Electrical Engineering at the University of Birmingham, a post he held until 1919.[2] In 1909 he was elected the president of the Institution of Electrical Engineers.[3][4] Kapp developed the basis for the calculation and construction of alternating current, dynamos and the transformer. The Electronic, Electrical & Systems Engineering Department at the University of Birmingham is situated in a building named after him. References1. ^James Forrest (editor), (1886), Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institute of Civil Engineers, p. 177; [https://archive.org/stream/minutesproceedi27britgoog#page/n192/mode/2up archive.org]. {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Kapp, Gisbert}}{{UK-engineer-stub}}2. ^{{cite book|last=Day|first=Lance|author2=Ian McNeil|title=Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology|publisher=Taylor & Francis|year=1996|pages=392|isbn=978-0-415-06042-4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9HQDGHQzVqAC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0#PPA392,M1}} 3. ^{{cite web | url=https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Gisbert_Kapp | title=Gisbert Kapp | publisher=Grace's Guide to British Industrial History | accessdate=22 April 2018 }} 4. ^{{cite journal|author=Kapp, Gisbert|title=Developments of Electrical Engineering|journal=Nature|date=25 November 1909|volume=82|issue=2091|pages=112–115|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t7czAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA112}} (Presidential address, Institution of Electrical Engineers, 11 November 1911) 5 : 1852 births|1922 deaths|British electrical engineers|British people of Austrian descent|People from Liesing |
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