Gisbert Kapp
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His parents were an Austrian counselor Gisbert Kapp and Luisa Kapp-Young. After finishing his studies in Austria, Kapp moved to England where he was naturalized in 1881. He was awarded a Telford Medal in 1885/6.[1] 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.[2] In 1909 he was elected the president of the Institution of Electrical Engineers.[3][4]
Kapp developed the basis for the calculation and construction of alternating current, dynamos and the transformer. The Electronic, Electrical & Systems Engineering Department at the University of Birmingham is situated in a building named after him.
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- ↑ James Forrest (editor), (1886), Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, p. 177; archive.org.
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