Hermann Plauson

Hermann Plauson was an Estonian engineer and inventor. Plauson investigated the production of energy and power via atmospheric electricity.

[edit] Biography

Plauson was the director of the Fischer-Tropsch "Otto Traun Research Laboratories" in Hamburg, Germany during the Weimar Republic of the 1920s. He built on Nikola Tesla's idea for connecting machinery to the "wheelwork of nature". Plauson's 1540998 patent describe methods to convert alternating radiant static electricity into rectified continuous current pulses. He developed the Plauson's converter, an electrostatic generator. In 1920, Plauson published a book titled "Production and Utilization of the Atmospheric Electricity" (Gr., Gewinnung und Verwertung der Atmospharischen Elektrizitat). A copy of this book is in the British Library.

It is believed that he was related to Gertrud Plauson (the exact relationship is unknown; she may be his wife).

Personal patents
American

U.S. Patent 1392849 - H. Plauson - "Manufacture of dispersiods, colloid powder, and masses therefrom"
U.S. Patent 1432895 - H. Plauson - "Reclaiming rubber"
U.S. Patent 1436288 - H. Plauson - "Process of the manufacture of Alkyl Ethers of Vinyl alcohols and homologues therefore"
U.S. Patent 1485706 - G. Plauson - "Method of carrying out electrochemical reactions and apparatus for the use therein"
U.S. Patent 1540998 - H. Plauson - "Conversion of atmospheric electric energy"

Other

Company patents (Traun's Forschungs laboratorium)

"Power from the Air". Science and invention (Formerly electrical experimenter), Feb. 1922, no. 10. Vol IX, Whole No. 106. New York. (nuenergy.org)
"Power from the Air". Science and invention (Formerly electrical experimenter), March 1922. (nuenergy.org).