Friedrich Drexler

Friedrich Drexler (born January 8, 1858 in Vienna , † October 21, 1945 in Vienna) was an Austrian electrical engineer.

The son of court attorney Josef Drexler and his wife Adelheid studied mechanical engineering at the Vienna University of Technology from 1874 to 1879 and then worked for two years at the Belgian mechanical engineering institute Cockerill and another at the Brush company in London.

In 1882 he joined the Béla Egger company in his hometown , where he became chief designer two years later. In 1884 he invented a universal current measuring instrument, which he baptized with the name Dreheisen-Messwerk , alluding to his last name (see Drechsler ) . As he reported at a lecture in April 1886, in the past "at most the number of revolutions of the dynamos", which he built from 1885 onwards, was one of the first in Austria. In 1886 he worked together with chief engineer Adolf Ritter von Wettstein and engineer Oscar Dittmar, who had also developed an ammeter.

In 1888 he discussed with the Electrotechnical Association the maximum current strengths permitted for line wires and the "dimensions" of fuses.

In view of the fact that the metric system had become naturalized in the cultivated states, he proposed in 1899 that instead of horse power or strength (HP, with 75 meter kilograms) the name power unit or unit for 100 meter kilograms should be introduced - and he regretted that the name Watt for the "unit of electrical energy is already out of print".

In 1905 he had an electropneumatic relay device patented. From 1906 he modernized large organs and from April 1939 he supervised the organ building of the Franz von Assisi Church for Gebr. Rieger . Around 1917 he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Franz Joseph Order.

Publications

• Via larger electrical power transmission systems

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Electrotechnical magazine. Volume 27, 1906
2. ↑ http://home.us.archive.org/stream/zeitschriftfrele04elek/zeitschriftfrele04elek_djvu.txt
3. ↑ O. Dittmar's Ammeter rel. Voltmeter. In: Polytechnisches Journal . 254, 1884, p. 66.
4. ↑ http://opus.kobv.de/btu/volltexte/2010/1887/pdf/Bd._51_Heft_40_43.pdf p. 577
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