Albert Czeczott

Albert Czeczott ( Russian Альберт Оттонович Чечотт , Albert Ottonowitsch Tschetschott * April 1 ^{. Jul} / 13. April  1873 ^greg. In St. Petersburg , † 3. November 1955 in Warsaw ) was a Russian - Polish engineer and steam locomotives - expert .

Life

Albert Czeczott was the son of the noble neurologist and psychiatrist Otton Czeczott (1842-1924). His siblings were the future mining engineer Henryk Czeczott (1875–1928) and the later sculptor Maria Ehe. Poplavskaya (1870-1936).

Albert Czeczott completed his schooling at the 5th St. Petersburg High School in 1892 and then studied at the St. Petersburg University of Transportation Engineering (graduation in 1897).

1904–1905 offered Czeczott a method to level the course of railway tracks . In 1909 he developed a new method for determining the speed and travel time of a train taking into account its inertia . The Czeczott method made it possible to produce diagram boards for determining speed and travel time, which could also be used by simple railway staff. In connection with this, he published the book New Method for Calculating the Time of Distillations in 1910 . In 1911 he suggested the use of compound steam locomotives with superheated steam . In his honor, the steam locomotives built accordingly received the index ch . In 1914 he was appointed to the chair of steam locomotives at the St. Petersburg University of Transport Engineering.

After the October Revolution and the Russian Civil War , Czeczott emigrated to Poland in 1922 . In 1927 he became a lecturer at the Warsaw University of Technology . In 1928 he moved to the Warsaw Ministry of Transport, where he investigated the driving behavior of locomotives. On his initiative a corresponding research laboratory was set up there. In particular, a new method for investigating the additional driving resistances of locomotives was developed there. By 1938, the data for 26 different locomotive types were determined.

In 1933, Czeczott led the construction of a measurement laboratory in Romania for the investigation of locomotives. 1934-1937 he worked in Tehran with the construction of the Trans-Iranian Railway . During the German occupation of Poland from 1939 to 1945 , he carried out theoretical work at home.

Soon after Warsaw was liberated by the Red Army in February 1945, Czeczott returned to the Polish Ministry of Transport. He developed a new method for checking locomotives, which was then generally introduced. In 1951 he moved to the newly founded Railway Research Institute , where he set up a flue gas and steam laboratory.

Honors

• Knight of the Order of Polonia Restituta
• Golden Cross of Merit of the Republic of Poland (twice)

literature

• Chechott Albert Ottonovich, (accessed February 6, 2016).
• Czeczott Albert (accessed February 6, 2016).
• Benedykt Czekała: W sztafecie pokoleń. Prof. Albert Czeczott . Nowe Sygnały No. 7 (1995).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Albert Czeczott (accessed February 6, 2016).