Galileo Ferraris
Galileo Ferraris (born October 31, 1847 in Livorno Vercellese , named in his honor Livorno Ferraris ; † February 7, 1897 in Turin ) was an Italian engineer and physicist .
Ferraris, the son of a pharmacist, after graduating in engineering in 1870, became Giovanni Codazza's assistant for technical physics at the Reale Museo Industriale Italiano in Turin , which later became part of today's Politecnico di Torino . In 1880 Ferraris became a full professor of physics himself . From 1886 to 1887 he set up the first electrical engineering school in Italy in Turin . He was the representative of Italy at several electrical engineering congresses and president of the Italian Electrotechnical Society.
His scientific work dealt primarily with electrical power transmission , transformers, as well as alternating current and three-phase current technology .
The Ferraris meter , an electricity meter based on the eddy current principle, was named after Galileo Ferraris . These widely used energy meters are easy to recognize by the horizontally rotating disk, the Ferrari rotor .
In 1886 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .
In 1888 he invented the three-phase system practically at the same time and independently of Nikola Tesla, and was in dispute with Westinghouse Electric for ten years , to whom Tesla had sold the patents for his invention.
Works
- Scientific basics of electrical engineering . (German from Leo Finzi, Leipzig: Teubner 1901)
Web links
- Literature by and about Galileo Ferraris in the WorldCat bibliographic database
Individual evidence
- ^ "MW": After Galileo Ferraris died in 1897, Westinghouse (with Nikola Tesla) manage to rewrite history using the US court system.
- ↑ Wilson, EB : Review: Scientific Foundations of Electrical Engineering by Galileo Ferraris. German edited by Leo Finzi . In: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. . 10, No. 5, 1904, pp. 266-267. doi : 10.1090 / S0002-9904-1904-01108-8 .
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SURNAME | Ferraris, Galileo |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian engineer and physicist |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 31, 1847 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Livorno Ferraris |
DATE OF DEATH | February 7, 1897 |
Place of death | Turin |