Karl Zickler

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Karl Zickler (born September 18, 1860 in Karlsbad , Bohemia , † August 20, 1933 in Brno ) was a German-Bohemian electrical engineer.

Life

He was the son of Karlsbad master rope maker Josef Zickler and his wife Theresia nee Schneider. From 1877 to 1881 he studied mathematics and physics at the Technical University in Prague . During his studies he became a member of the Hercynia Prague country team . After graduating, he worked for two years at secondary schools in Bielsko and Prague. In 1884 he became the assistant and son-in-law of Adalbert von Waltenhofen at the newly founded electrotechnical institute at the Technical University of Vienna. In 1890 he qualified for electromagnetism and the calculation of dynamos and at the same time became head of the department. In 1895 he became a professor of mechanical engineering in Brno.

In 1898, following Hertz 's observations about ultraviolet rays, he invented a kind of photoelectric telegraphy without wire. Hertz had discovered in 1887 that UV light greatly promoted electrical discharges. If the UV-rich light from a carbon arc lamp was directed at the cathode of a widely spaced spherical capacitor , a spark occurred. Zickler used a carbon arc lamp as a transmitter for his telegraph and a glass pane (UV-impermeable) for signaling. On the receiver, a lens made of rock crystal (UV-permeable) concentrated the UV light on the cathode of a spherical capacitor welded into a tube

Publications

  • Textbook on general electrical engineering for electrical engineering students at technical universities and for electrical engineers ; 1906

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ PAVEL ŠIŠMA - UČITELÉ NA NĚMECKÉ TECHNICE V BRNĚ 1849–1945 queried on August 8, 2016
  2. ↑ Historii, Praktický provoz a především jednotlivé osobnosti působící na německé technice sepsal Pavel Šišma: Pavel Šišma, Učitelé na německé technice v Brně 1849-1945, Prague 2004
  3. ^ Berthold Ohm and Alfred Philipp (eds.): Directory of addresses of the old men of the German Landsmannschaft. Part 1. Hamburg 1932, p. 252.
  4. ↑ Ludwig Darmstaedter: Handbook on the History of Natural Sciences and Technology 1866 (PDF; 2.5 MB)
  5. ↑ http://www.archive.org/stream/telegraphieohne00bauegoog/telegraphieohne00bauegoog_djvu.txt
personal data
SURNAME Zickler, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bohemian electrical engineer
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Carlsbad
DATE OF DEATH August 20, 1933
Place of death Brno