Wilhelm Gentsch

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Wilhelm Christoph Emil Gentsch (born April 9, 1865 in Saint Petersburg , † after 1949) was a German engineer.

Life

Wilhelm Gentsch studied engineering at the Technical University of Berlin , where he became a member of the Corps Pomerania-Silesia. After completing his studies, he entered the service of the Imperial Patent Office as an engineer, where he was promoted to government councilor and senior councilor and was promoted to a member of the patent office. Gentsch was the author of numerous technical papers and wrote a number of reviews on technical specialties. His book Steam Turbines was considered the standard patent work for steam turbine engineers. He was editor of the magazine fuel and heat economy, communications of the Brennkrafttechnische Gesellschaft eV Berlin . He was a member of the Berlin Masonic Lodge To the flaming star . On October 15, 1890, he married Klara Anna Sophia Kirschner in Charlottenburg.

Awards

Fonts

  • Underwater Vehicles - A Study in Dark Fields , 1895
  • Incandescent gas light - Its history, nature and effect , 1895
  • The incandescent gas light: its history, character and operation. Composition for the inventor, the manufacturer and the consumer. , 1896
  • The kerosene lamp and its components - The development of the kerosene lamp in the last few years , 1896
  • Safety and rescue at sea , 1897
  • The World Exhibition in Paris 1900 , 1901
  • Steam turbines - development, systems, construction, and uses , 1905
  • Steam Turbines - Their Development, Styles of Build, Construction and Uses , 1906
  • Rotary piston engines , 1906
  • International Exhibition Milan 1906, official report , 1908
  • Regulation, reversal and protection of steam turbines for stationary companies, land and water vehicles , 1908
  • Investigations into the gas and oil constant pressure turbine , 1924
  • Working on the gas and oil turbine , 1924

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b List of addresses of Weinheimer SC. 1928, p. 32.
  2. ↑ Brown coal, heat and energy, magazine for the extraction and utilization of brown coal . tape 2 , no. 5/6 . Verlag "Die Braunkohle", Düsseldorf March 1950, p. 96 (Congratulations on your 85th birthday on April 9, 1950).
  3. ↑ Newer German steam turbine literature. In: Polytechnisches Journal . 320, 1905, pp. 428-ad.
  4. ↑ registry office Charlottenburg, marriage certificate no. 559/1890
  5. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung, Volume 27, No. 89, November 2, 1907, p. 577 ( digitized version )
  6. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung, Volume 28, No. 43, May 30, 1908, p. 293 ( digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Gentsch, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gentsch, Wilhelm Christoph Emil (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH after 1930