Bruno Abakanowicz

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Bruno Abakanowicz

Bruno Abdank-Abakanowicz (born October 6, 1852 in Ukmergė , † August 29, 1900 in Parc Saint-Maur ) was a Polish mathematician and electrical engineer who developed a new type of electric lamp and constructed mechanical devices for drawing curves .

Life

Bruno Abdank Abakanowicz was born on October 6, 1852 in Ukmergė.

He went to Warsaw to high school and studied at the Polytechnic Riga with the degree of engineer for road and bridge construction. After that he moved to Lemberg , where he worked as a lecturer in mechanics . There he began his studies of planimetry , which led to the construction of the so-called integrator , which is used for the numerical representation of infinitesimal calculations. Bruno Abakanowicz published a description of this mathematical instrument in 1880 in “Rozprawy i Sprawozdania Wydziału matematyczno-przyrodniczego Akademii Umiejętności w Krakowie” and in the Warsaw magazine “Inżynierya i Budownictwo”.

From 1878 to 1900 he headed the scientific section in the Warsaw “Ateneum” and wrote articles for the Lviv magazine “Kosmos”.

Around 1880 he and the British physicist Sir Charles Vernon Boys independently invented the integraph .

In 1881 Bruno Abakanowicz moved to Paris , where he set up an electrical engineering workshop. In 1882 three more treatises on this were finally published in the “Comptes rendus” at the Paris Academy of Sciences .

A short time later he was appointed director of the Compagnie française du procédé Thompson-Houston . During this time, an electromagnetic bell for railway signal systems and a new type of electric lamp were built.

In 1889 the French government put him in charge of negotiations with the USA regarding their participation in the Paris World Exhibition in 1889 . In the same year he was awarded the Cross of the Legion of Honor .

He also had a long friendship with the author Henryk Sienkiewicz and the physicist Zygmunt Wróblewski .

He died on August 29, 1900 in Parc Saint-Maur .

Works

  • Zarys statyki wykreślnej , Lemberg 1876.
  • Integrator. Krzywa całkowa i jej zastosowania w mechanice budowniczej . In: Inżynierya i Budownictwo , Warsaw 1882 ( PDF ; 28.5 MB)
  • Les intégraphes, la courbe intégrale et ses applications, étude sur un nouveau système d'intégration mécanique , Paris 1886. (Translation into German as "The integraphs. The integral curve and their applications" by Emil Bitterli , Leipzig 1889)

literature

personal data
SURNAME Abakanowicz, Bruno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Abdank-Abakanowicz, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish mathematician and inventor
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Ukmergė
DATE OF DEATH 29th August 1900
Place of death Parc Saint-Maur