Bruno Abdank-Abakanowicz (October 6, 1852 – August 29, 1900) was a mathematician, inventor and electrical engineer.
Abakanowicz was born in 1852 in Vilkmergė, Kovno Governorate of the Russian Empire (formerly the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, later part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth) . After graduating from the Riga Technical University (then Riga Polytechnicum), at the age of 23 Abakanowicz passed his habilitation and began an assistantship ...
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Bruno Abdank-Abakanowicz (October 6, 1852 – August 29, 1900) was a mathematician, inventor and electrical engineer.
Abakanowicz was born in 1852 in Vilkmergė, Kovno Governorate of the Russian Empire (formerly the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, later part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth) . After graduating from the Riga Technical University (then Riga Polytechnicum), at the age of 23 Abakanowicz passed his habilitation and began an assistantship at the Technical University of Lwów. In 1881, he moved to France where he purchased a villa in Parc St. Maur on the outskirts of Paris.
There, among other things, he invented the integraph, a form of the integrator, which was patented in 1880, and was henceforth produced by the Swiss firm Coradi. Among his other patents were the parabolagraph, the spirograph, the electric bell used in trains, and an electric arc lamp of his own design. Abakanowicz published several works, including works on statistics, integrators and numerous popular...
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