Franz Prášil

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Franz Prášil

Franz Prášil (born September 16, 1857 in Radkersburg ; † January 3, 1929 in Zurich ) was an Austrian mechanical engineer and university professor.

Life

Prášil studied mechanical engineering at the Graz University of Technology from 1876 to 1881 . His work at Escher Wyss & Cie. in Vienna, Prague and Saxony brought him into contact with Aurel Stodola . Through him he was appointed professor of mechanical engineering at the Zurich Polytechnic in 1893 . For the next 32 years he taught transmission and lifting tools , then hydraulics and turbine theory . He received a teaching position for factories and initiated a hydraulic test laboratory. From 1903 he got involved in the reorganization of the Polytechnic. In his area, he expanded the freedom of study and learning. He was a juror at the Swiss National Exhibition in Geneva (1896), the Paris World Exhibition in 1900 and the Swiss National Exhibition in Bern (1914). He turned down three appointments to foreign universities. In 1926 he was retired at his own request. Prášil had been a member of the Corps Montania Leoben since 1875 (xx, xxx).

Works

  • Technical hydrodynamics , 2nd edition. 1926.

Honors

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c ETH Zurich
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 98/33
personal data
SURNAME Prášil, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian mechanical engineer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Radkersburg , Styria
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 1929
Place of death Zurich