Wilhelm Breithaupt (inventor)

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Wilhelm Breithaupt (born October 2, 1841 in Kassel ; † December 29, 1931 there ) was a German engineer and inventor . He was a member of the Breithaupt family of precision mechanics in Kassel .

Life

Wilhelm Breithaupt was born in Kassel in 1841 as the son of the manufacturer and inventor Georg August Breithaupt (1806–1888). He studied at the Technical University in Hanover and at the Polytechnic in Karlsruhe. During his studies in Karlsruhe he became a member of the Corps Saxonia in 1860 . After completing his studies, he took part in the leveling for European grade measurement under the direction of O. Börsch . From 1864 he was employed in his father's factory. In 1868 he married Klara Pfingsten (1847–1920), the daughter of a book printer owner. Like Wilhelm von Breithaupt , Wilhelm Breithaupt belongs to an old Kassel family of precision mechanics who have been running the precision engineering company of the same name there since 1762.

Wilhelm Breithaupt died in Kassel in 1931.

Act

Breithaupt appeared as a designer of several types of total stations . Among other things, his designs for the Puller-Breithaupt tachymeter, a technical leveling instrument with a distance meter and an orientation instrument for follow-up measurements in mining were crowned with success . Its most important construction was probably the Seibt-Breithauptsche Feinnivellier, which u. a. was used for leveling the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal , on the Volga and at the Simplon Tunnel .

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  1. ^ Corps list of the Weinheimer SC from 1821 to 1906 . Dresden 1906, p. 41
personal data
SURNAME Breithaupt, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and inventor
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1931
Place of death kassel