Gisbert Kapp
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1852 – 1922
Who was Gisbert Kapp?
Gisbert Johann Eduard Kapp was an Austrian-English electrical engineer.
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. 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.
Kapp developed the basis for the calculation and construction of alternating current, dynamos and the transformer. The Electronic, Electrical & Computer Engineering Department at the University of Birmingham is situated in a building named after him.
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- Born
- Sep 2, 1852
Austria - Also known as
- Gisbert kapp
- Nationality
- Austria
- Died
- Aug 10, 1922
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on July 23, 2013
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