Eduard Becker (engineer)

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Eduard Becker (born December 17, 1832 in Klein-Glienicke near Potsdam , † June 30, 1913 at his summer residence in Elsenau am Werbellinsee ) was a German engineer and machine manufacturer .

Life

Family and education

The Evangelical baptized Edward Becker, son of the architect Heinrich Becker and his wife Marie Friederike born Buchholtz, studied after a short practical training in a factory and an iron foundry in Berlin from 1853 to 1856 at the Royal Commercial Institute in Berlin. Becker then went on a study trip to England , where he was employed as an engineer in industry.

Eduard Becker was married and the father of the engineer and machine manufacturer Erich Becker (1865–1935). He died in 1913 at the age of 80 at his summer residence in Elsenau on the Werbellinsee.

Professional career

Slewing rail crane (right, light blue) with inscription E. Becker, Berlin-Reinickendorf, 5000 kg load capacity, 1913. in Nienburg / Weser

Eduard Becker took up a position as a senior engineer in the small machine factory M. Weber in Berlin in 1860 , and in 1866 he founded his own factory. By the period 1879 Eduard Becker enter the basic structures of Becker's centrifugal brake and the load pressure brake. The centrifugal speed brakes, for which he was awarded the gold medal at the hygiene exhibition in 1883, ensured greater safety against accidents than the conventional designs, since they independently regulate the lowering speed. Eduard Becker used the load pressure brake in particular on his screw pulley blocks . It made possible the self-locking pulley block with high lifting efficiency, which was produced in his factory with great success. At the accident prevention exhibition in 1889, he presented a groundbreaking innovation, namely the first electrically operated foundry slewing crane.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Centrifugal brake by Becker in Meyer's Large Conversation Lexicon .
  2. ↑ To the introduction to the general German exhibition for hygiene and rescue services


personal data
SURNAME Becker, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and machine manufacturer
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH Klein-Glienicke near Potsdam
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1913
Place of death at his summer residence in Elsenau on the Werbellinsee