Gisbert Kapp

Gisbert Johann Eduard Kapp (September 2, 1852, in Mauer, Liesing, Vienna – August 10, 1922) was an Austrian-English electrical engineer.

After finishing his studies in Austria, Kapp moved to England where he was naturalized in 1881. In 1904 he was offered the position as the first Chair of Electrical Engineering at the University of Birmingham, a post he held until 1919.^[1]

Kapp developed the basis for the calculation and construction of alternating current, dynamos and the transformer. The Electronic, Electrical & Computer Engineering Department at the University of Birmingham is situated in a building named after him.

References

^ Day, Lance; Ian McNeil (1996). Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology. Taylor & Francis. pp. 392. ISBN 978-0-415-06042-4. http://books.google.com/books?id=9HQDGHQzVqAC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0#PPA392,M1.

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Name	Kapp, Gisbert
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Date of birth	September 2, 1852
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Date of death	August 10, 1922
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