Carl Ferdinand Steinhaus

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Carl Ferdinand Steinhaus (born May 1, 1826 in Hamburg ; † June 4, 1899 there ) was a German shipbuilding engineer .

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Carl Ferdinand Steinhaus attended a secondary school and trained as a shipbuilder at Hamburg shipyards. In the absence of further training opportunities, he received private lessons in mathematics and physics. He then worked as a ship's carpenter in Europe and America. In 1853 he got a job as a shipbuilding teacher at a trade school in Hamburg. Here he taught the future entrepreneur Georg Howaldt .

Steinhaus wrote several books and essays and was considered a respected expert in the construction of iron ships . More than 400 of his designs were realized in Hamburg shipyards. He worked with the ferry company Johann Heinrich Grell (1824–1898) and probably took over his idea of ​​building an icebreaker. After test trips with tugboats in the frozen port of Hamburg , the “Eisbrecher No.” was built in the Reiherstieg shipyard . 1 ”, which later became known as the ice fox . It was the first fully functional screw icebreaker in the world, which was used on the Lower Elbe and found imitators in Germany and Scandinavia. The collaboration with Johann Heinrich Grell ended in dispute in the 1870s.

Presumably in particular due to his publications and technical expertise, Bureau Veritas , which was leading in the classification of German sailing ships at the time, employed Steinhaus in 1872 as inspector general for iron ships built in Germany. From 1873 to 1881 he worked as a Reich ship surveying inspector for the North Sea ports for the Reich Office of the Interior .

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SURNAME Stone house, Carl Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German naval engineer
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH June 4, 1899
Place of death Hamburg