Adolf Ferdinand Weinhold

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The vacuum vessel described by Weinhold in 1881

Adolf Ferdinand Weinhold (born May 19, 1841 in Zwenkau , † July 2, 1917 in Chemnitz ) was a German physicist and chemist .

Weinhold was the fourth child of the royal court advisor Friedrich Moritz Weinhold and spent his childhood in Zwenkau near Leipzig . From 1857 to 1861 he studied chemistry at the Universities of Leipzig and Göttingen, primarily chemistry with Otto Linné Erdmann and Friedrich Wöhler , before finding employment as an assistant at the agricultural research station in Chemnitz. In 1864 he became a trial physics teacher at the royal trade school in Chemnitz from 1865 . In 1870 he received the title of professor and in 1873 due to his work on "Measuring High Temperatures" from the University of Leipzig the academic degree of Dr. phil.

Weinhold was one of the initiators of the first city power plants based on three-phase current in Chemnitz, Dresden, Leipzig and Plauen.

In his textbook "Physical Demonstrations" in 1881 he described a vacuum jacketed bottle for laboratory purposes. However, as early as 1874 , James Dewar was using a double-walled evacuated vessel made of mirrored glass to store liquefied gases, which is still called a Dewar vessel in his honor . Reinhold Burger from Pankow took up the idea of ​​the vacuum jacket and, on October 1st, 1903, patented a vacuum jug for everyday use that was mechanically more robust.

The following buildings bear his name in his honor:

  • the Zwenkau market development "Weinhold-Arkade"
  • the "Adolf-Ferdinand-Weinhold-Bau" of the TU Chemnitz

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adolf Ferdinand Weinhold: Physical demonstrations (instructions for experimenting in lessons at grammar schools, secondary schools and industrial schools) . Quandt & Handel, Leipzig 1881, p. 479 Fig. 362.
  2. ^ Thomas O'Connor Sloane: Liquid Air and Liquefaction of Gases . Norman W. Henley & Co., New York 1900, pp. Chapter XI, especially page 232.
  3. ↑ DRP no. 170057 of October 1, 1903

Works

  • Guide to physical education (24 editions)
  • Physical demonstrations - instructions for experimenting in class at grammar schools, secondary schools and industrial schools (7 requirements)
  • Preschool of Experimental Physics - Theory of nature in elementary representation together with instructions for making the apparatus (5 editions)

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personal data
SURNAME Weinhold, Adolf Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist and chemist
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwenkau
DATE OF DEATH July 2, 1917
Place of death Chemnitz