Ferdinand Schneider (engineer)
Ferdinand Schneider (born October 10, 1866 in Fulda ; † March 27, 1955 there ) was a German engineer, physicist, entrepreneur and inventor.
Life
Ferdinand Schneider was the eldest son of Luise Mollenhauer and Johannes Schneider. After completing secondary school, he completed an apprenticeship as a watchmaker and then did his military service as a military musician in the Navy; he played the Boehm flute . During the First World War he invented depth charges and mines for the Navy .
On March 23, 1895 , Schneider demonstrated in front of Guglielmo Marconi , who (together with Karl Ferdinand Braun ) received the Nobel Prize for it in 1909 , the wireless telegraphy in the "Harmonie" in Fulda; However, Schneider lacked the necessary capital to implement his ideas commercially. 117 German and 64 foreign patents were granted to him. Because of lack of funds, he had to refuse honorary doctorates from the universities of Jena and Zurich . Sometimes he worked closely with Ferdinand Braun. His idea of a "world clock", a forerunner of the radio clock known today , met with mixed feedback.
In addition, he developed rangefinders, microphones, projectors, motors, speech machines, safety manometers, lightning rods, signal systems and wind turbines. Schneider came up with the idea of generating electricity with wind during his visit to the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900. At home, he went straight to work and operated a dynamo with a wind turbine in Brauhausstrasse using a drive belt, which now supplied electricity, also for storage for a 30-volt system (batteries). Schneider then built a large number of wind turbines, the most famous of which was on the Kreuzberg, where it supplied the Franciscan monastery with electricity. He even sold his "windmills" to Holland. The fees for his many patents plunged him into financial crisis that his house and laboratories were foreclosed. His hometown, in which he had become the first culture prize winner in 1944, paid him an honorary salary.
Appreciation
Landgravine Anna von Hessen appointed the "Fuldaer Edison" in 1913 as her court electrical engineer. In 2005 it was decided to put a plaque on the house where he was born in Fulda. Since such a board was not attached in mid-2012 either, a new application was submitted to the city council in June 2012. The board has been hanging since February 2014.
The Vonderau Museum dedicates a small area to him in the cultural history permanent exhibition. The Ferdinand-Schneider-Strasse in the industrial park houses carbon field in Fulda is named after him.
literature
- Klaus Beyrer: Schneider, Ferdinand. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 289 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Michael Mott : The history of the Fuldaer Windmühle / Ferdinand Schneider's "Electricity Center" by means of a wind turbine, in: "Buchenblätter" Fuldaer Zeitung , 73rd year, No. 8, March 29, 2000, pp. 29–31; No. 9, April 5, 2000, p. 36.
- Michael Mott: " The man who had invented too many things / The" Fulda Edison "Ferdinand Schneider developed in 1895, the wireless Rt. Archived from the original on 11 February 2013 ; accessed on 29 January 2015 . ", In: Fulda Newspaper, March 30, 2005, p. 15 (Series: Fuldaer Köpfe).
- Stephan Mollenhauer: Ferdinand Schneider (1866-1955) . Memoirs of a Fulda inventor and pioneer of 'wireless telegraphy' (= 65th publication by the Fulda History Association ). Parzeller, Fulda 2005, ISBN 3-7900-0378-6 .
Web links
- Martin Werner (Fulda University of Applied Sciences): Ferdinand Schneider - Fulda entrepreneur, inventor and engineer ( Memento from November 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- German Society for Postal and Telecommunication History: Short biography ( memento from January 1, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) via Internet Archive
- Christoph Käppeler: " Ferdinand Schneider - Electricity from Urine ", hr 4 Northeast Hesse on February 10, 2006
- Ferdinand Schneider. In: bilderbogen: inventors, researchers and discoverers: inventors in Hessen. Hessischer Rundfunk , August 12, 2014, accessed on September 23, 2014 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.fuldaerzeitung.de/artikelansicht/artikel/1889544/sperrfrist-dienstag-18-februar-8-uhr-gedenkafel-erinnert-an-telegraphie-pionier-ferdinand-schneider
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schneider, Ferdinand |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German engineer, entrepreneur and inventor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 10, 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fulda |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 27, 1955 |
| Place of death | Fulda |