Wilhelm Brix

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Philipp Wilhelm Brix (born July 25, 1817 in Berlin , † March 31, 1899 in Charlottenburg ) was probably the first lecturer in electrical telegraphy and electrical engineering. He made great contributions to the expansion of German telegraph connections and their internationalization.

Life

After attending the Köllnisches Gymnasium , he studied from 1837 to 1841 in both Berlin and Königsberg and received his doctorate in philosophy .

From 1841 he carried out physical investigations, such as "on behalf of the Association for the Promotion of Industry in Prussia and with the support of the Royal Ministry of Trade and Industry" and "About the heating power of the more important fuels of the Prussian state". Different types of wood , peat , lignite , artificially charred materials, English and Prussian hard coals and mixtures of different types of coal were examined. (Berlin, Ernst u. Korn, 1853)

From 1853 on, Brix was the editor and editor of a magazine for the German-Austrian Telegraph Association. In 1855, like Julius Wilhelm Gintl shortly before, he dealt with duplex transmission on telegraph lines. In 1863 he became a lecturer in electrical telegraphy at the Bauakademie am Werderschen Markt in Berlin-Mitte. The Bauakademie only had a teaching and no research assignment.

In 1876 he became chief engineer and authorized representative of the Imperial General Telegraph Office and managed its expansion. In 1877 he was appointed to the new Reich Patent Office . In 1879 he became a foreign member of the Society of Telegraph Engineers (later IEE ) in London.

From 1879 to 1881, the building and trade academy merged to form the Royal Technical University of Berlin , whose headquarters were relocated to Charlottenburg . In 1881 Brix became vice-president of the jury for the electrical engineering exhibition in Paris. As a representative of the German Empire, he represented German science together with Emil Heinrich du Bois-Reymond , Rudolf Clausius , Hermann von Helmholtz , Johann Wilhelm Hittorf , Gustav Robert Kirchhoff , Werner von Siemens at the 1st International Electricians Congress on 20th and 21st September 1881 in Paris during the electricity exhibition . The units amperes , coulombs , farads , ohms and volts found their way into technology at that time and were declared binding.

At the end of the summer semester of 1882, he left the faculty after twenty years of teaching. One year later, Adolf Slaby took over his lecture (professor for theoretical mechanical engineering and electrical engineering in 1885). In 1888 he retired and was appointed a Privy Councilor.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Register Office Charlottenburg I, death register no. 193/1899. State Archives Berlin.
personal data
SURNAME Brix, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brix, Philipp Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lecturer for electrical telegraphy and electrical engineering
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1899
Place of death Charlottenburg