Hermann Alt
Hermann Alt (born April 2, 1889 in Dresden ; † January 15, 1954 in Doberlug-Kirchhain ) was a German engineer and founder of quantitative gear theory and held the first German chair specifically for gear theory. He was a professor at the Technical University of Dresden and then at the Technical University of Berlin .
Life
He was the son of the businessman Georg Alt (* 1858) and studied at the TH Dresden, where he became an assistant in 1912 and received his doctorate in 1914 with the text on the theory of speed and acceleration plans of a plane moving along with it . During the First World War he was an engineer in an artillery workshop. From 1919 he was again an assistant at the TH Dresden, from 1921 as a private lecturer and from 1923 as a professor for transmission theory and mechanics of mechanical engineering. In 1939 he became professor for transmission and construction at the Technical University of Berlin and head of the institute for transmission technology and construction of processing machines and precision mechanics . An armaments-important research area was the transmission of machine weapons .
The Altsche dead center construction is named after him.
In addition to transmission theory and synthesis, he also dealt with biomechanics and the mechanics of prostheses. In the Handbook of Physics by Geiger / Scheel he wrote the section Geometry of Movements (1927).
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Old, Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German science historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 2, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 15, 1954 |
| Place of death | Doberlug-Kirchhain |