Albert Frank (engineer)

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Ludwig Albert Frank (* 19th December 1841 in Lauenstein , † 20th November 1909 in Hannover ) was a German mechanical engineering - engineering and university teachers . He taught from 1895 to 1898 as a professor at the Technical University of Hanover and was temporarily its rector .

Life

Albert Frank studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Hanover, where he became a member of the Corps Obotritia, which was later moved to Darmstadt . After completing his studies, he worked from March 1, 1864 to July 15, 1865 as a designer at the Georg Egestorff machine factory in Linden near Hanover . From 1865 to 1871 he was a mechanical engineer at the Hanover General Directorate of Railways and Telegraphs . From 1880 he taught as a professor for railways and kinematics at the Technical University of Hanover. From 1895 to 1898 he was the rector of the university.

Frank died in the autumn of 1909. His area of ​​railway engineering was transferred to Ludwig Troske in April 1909 .

Awards

Fonts

  • The resistance of the locomotives and trains, the water and coal consumption as well as the effect of the locomotives . In: Verein Deutscher Eisenbahnverwaltungen (Ed.): Organ for the progress of the railway system in technical terms , Volume 38, Kreidel, Wiesbaden 1883 and 1886.
  • Railway engineering. 1890.
  • Commemorative speech to celebrate the 100th birthday of His Majesty the most blessed Kaiser Wilhelm the Great, held on March 22, 1897 at the Royal Technical University of Hanover. Göhmann, 1897.
  • Memories of a serious and cheerful kind of the railway operations in the war of 1870/1871 . Kreidel, 1899.
  • Recent investigations into the resistance of the locomotives and trains with special consideration of high travel speeds . In: VDI newspaper , year 1903, p. 460.
  • Attempts to determine the air resistance, its dependence on the speed and the shape of the body. 1905.

literature

  • Paul Trommsdorff: The faculty of the Technical University of Hanover 1831-1931. Hanover 1931, p. 56.
  • Technical University of Hanover (Ed.): Catalogus professorum. Hanover 1956, p. 160.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ FL Staub: Corps list of the Weinheimer SC from 1821 to 1906 . Dresden 1906, p. 188.
  2. ^ Rector's speeches in the 19th and 20th centuries - online bibliography: Albert Frank , accessed on April 1, 2010