Peter Salcher

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Peter Salcher around 1890

Peter Salcher (born August 10, 1848 in Kreuzen (Carinthia), † October 4, 1928 in Sušak , Croatia) was an Austrian physicist and photography pioneer.

Life

Peter Salcher, the son of a teacher, attended elementary school in his birthplace Kreuzen and the grammar school in Klagenfurt , where he also graduated . In Graz he received his doctorate in philosophy. After a six-month trial period at a grammar school in Graz, he got a position at the upper secondary school in Trieste , which he held for 35 years. From 1875 he worked at the Naval Academy Fiume until 1909 as a professor of physics and mechanics. One of his students was Georg Ludwig von Trapp .

In 1880 he was also appointed head of the meteorological station in Fiume .

He was married since 1874 to Adrienne von Am-Pach auf Grienfelden, born in Leoben , the daughter of a district captain .

In 1909 he retired, where he lived first in Fiume, then from 1910 to 1914 in Trieste and finally in Sušak. He died there in 1928. He is buried in the family grave in Fiume.

Act

He took photographs for the first time in 1886 of air waves caused by projectiles flying at supersonic speeds . He carried out these studies in collaboration with Ernst Mach . He also made waves and eddies of escaping compressed air visible in photos with the help of the Schlieren method , which was developed by August Toepler .

One of the first recordings of a pistol bullet in flight by Peter Salcher

There are other smaller treatises in the field of physics, meteorology and photography. They were also published in various specialist journals, such as in the communications from the field of maritime affairs in Vienna . This work was also largely used for the training of naval officers of the Kuk Kriegsmarine .

The letters he wrote to Mach have long been available in the Deutsches Museum in Munich , while the letters in the opposite direction, i.e. those that he received from Ernst Mach, were only discovered in 2002 by a relative of Salcher and only then made available to the public were. Original photos by Salcher and Mach are on permanent loan from the Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt Wien in the Albertina's photo collection .

The work with Ernst Mach is often used as an example of interdisciplinary cooperation within the monarchy.

Works

  • Elements of theoretical mechanics , 1881 at C. Gerold in Vienna
  • Physics and mechanics , two parts 1891 and 1895, at the court and state printing works in Vienna
  • Handbook of Oceanography , two parts, 1883 Vienna as co-author
  • The climate of Fiume-Abbazia , 1894 Fiume G. Dase
  • History of the kuk Marine-Akademie , 1902, at C. Gerold Vienna
  • The water mirror images , 1903, Halle an der Saale

Awards

literature

  • Ernst Mach, Peter Salcher: Photographic fixation of the processes initiated by projectiles in the air . In: Meeting reports of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. Mathematical and natural science class . tape 95 , no. 2 , 1887, p. 764–780 ( fotomanifeste.de [PDF]).
  • Peter Berz; Christoph Hoffmann:  Salcher, Peter. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 364 f. ( Digitized version ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German biographical encyclopedia, page 675, accessed on March 13, 2009.
  2. ↑ Flying projectiles in sight. (No longer available online.) In: Kleine Zeitung . July 21, 2009, formerly in the original ; Retrieved March 13, 2009 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kleinezeitung.at
  3. ^ W. Gerhard Pohl: The photography of flying projectiles. Ernst Mach and Peter Salcher as pioneers of supersonic research. In: Johannes Kepler Symposium for Mathematics. University of Linz, 2004, accessed on November 5, 2018 (abstract of the lecture).

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personal data
SURNAME Salcher, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian physicist
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Crossing in Carinthia
DATE OF DEATH October 4, 1928
Place of death Sušak in Croatia