Lodygin biography brief

In the year, Alexander moved to St. Petersburg and, having served a mandatory term, resigned. Lodygin began his career as a technician, devoting free time to developing incandescent lamps. He became interested in this topic, working on the construction of a aircraft, for the lighting of which such a light source was most suitable. He attended lectures at the Technological Institute, studied the latest scientific developments in the field of applied physics and electricity.

Work on the electrical equipment of the aircraft led Lodygin to the invention in the year of the incandescent lamp, where a thin rod made of retorted coal, placed under a glass cap served in the intensity. A year later, Alexander demonstrated his invention in various institutions of St. Petersburg.

But historical significance was the installation of lighting there by its lamps of Odessa street. In subsequent years, Lodygin conducted experiments of electric lighting of ships, enterprises, etc. In the year he received a privilege in Russia for this invention, which also patented in Austria, Great Britain, France and Belgium. Then the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences awarded him the Lomonosov Prize.

In the X years, Lodygin worked in many St. Petersburg factories. Here he faced completely new questions related to metallurgy. Under their influence, Alexander was carried away by an electric plate and began to work on the construction of an electric furnace, on which a patent would receive in the year. The St. Petersburg Electrotechnical Institute awarded him the title of Honorary Electric Engineer, and industrial electrothermia owes many Lodygin as a pioneer of this industry.

In the year, Lodygin goes abroad. He worked in France and the United States, creating new incandescent lamps, invented electric furnaces, electric cars, built plants and metro. In Paris, he organized the Lodygin and de Lila lamp company, in the USA he built and launched a plant for electrochemical obtaining tungsten, chromium, titanium but mainly the name of Lodygin is associated with the construction of an electric incandescent lamp, although it does not have a single inventor - the history of the light bulb is a whole chain of discoveries made by different people at different times.

However, it was he who first turned the lamp from a physical device into a practical means of lighting - into a subject of wide consumption. Persons of the day March 17: - Gotlib Daimler German engineer, designer and industrialist.