Pius Fink (engineer)
Pius Fink (born March 3, 1832 in Sulzberg (Vorarlberg) , † September 16, 1874 in Vienna ) was an Austrian locomotive designer.
Pius Fink was in the service of the StEG locomotive factory from 1859 . There he designed a support tender locomotive in which the axles of the tender were also driven by a jackshaft . Three of these locomotives, the Steyerdorf , the Krahsova and the Gerliste , were used by the Austro-Hungarian State Railway Company from 1863 . However, the design was not a lasting success.
In addition, Fink developed a regulation for water turbines , the Fink regulation.
literature
- Erhard Born: Fink, Pius. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 162 ( digitized version ).
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| SURNAME | Fink, Pius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian locomotive designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 3, 1832 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sulzberg (Vorarlberg) |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 16, 1874 |
| Place of death | Vienna |