Francesc Salvà i Campillo
Francesc Salvà i Campillo (born July 12, 1751 in Barcelona , † February 13, 1828 ) was a Spanish doctor and inventor.
As the son of a doctor at the hospital in Barcelona, he began his education at the College of the Bishops of Barcelona. He studied at the Universities of Valencia and Huesca and received his bachelor's degree in medicine at the age of twenty.
It was a great promoter of vaccination against smallpox with the Jenner vaccine and wrote important works on various diseases, including yellow fever.
He translated numerous works, developed a fondness for meteorology and made three daily weather observations for the Journal of Barcelona. In 1784 he rose from the orchard in Plaza Santa Ana in a hot air balloon. He invented a machine for packing hemp and a boat for underwater navigation, but did not solve the problem with indoor air.
On December 16, 1795, he reported to the Academy in Barcelona about his attempts at wireless telegraphy.
In 1804 he built an electrolyte telegraph with 26 lines, at the ends of which were glass tubes in which liquid would decompose in the event of an electrical surge. Five years later, Samuel Thomas von Soemmerring built a similar one .
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.weblandia.com/cerdanyola/salva.htm ( Memento from June 20, 2001 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ ieee.org
- ↑ Meinel, Sack: WWW: Kommunikation, .. ; P. 68
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Salvà i Campillo, Francesc |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Catalan doctor and inventor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 12, 1751 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Barcelona |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 13, 1828 |
| Place of death | Barcelona |