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

Commons : Galileo Ferraris - collection of images, videos and audio files

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 .

personal data
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

[1] "MW": After Galileo Ferraris died in 1897, Westinghouse (with Nikola Tesla) manage to rewrite history using the US court system.

[2] 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 .