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    Heinrich Daniel Rühmkorff (German: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈdaːni̯ɛl ˈʁyːm.kɔʁf]; anglicized as Ruhmkorff; 15 January 1803 – 20 December 1877) was a German instrument...
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    lighting to home or indoor use. Ruhmkorff lamps were an early form of portable electric lamp, named after Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff and first used in the 1860s...
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    high voltage of about 30 kilovolts applied between the two sides from a Ruhmkorff coil. He received the waves with a resonant single-loop antenna with a...
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    radio and TV receivers. The term inductor seems to come from Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff, who called the induction coil he invented in 1851 an inductorium...
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  • (1784–1855), sculptor Julio Ruelas (1870–1907), Mexican painter Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff (1803–1877), German inventor Jean Sablon (1906–1994), singer Charles...
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    the French École polytechnique. He bought the Ruhmkorff workshops in Paris when Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff died and made it a successful business for building...
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  • for mechanical television. Two years later, his patent ran out. 1886: Heinrich Hertz succeeds in proving the existence of electromagnetic waves for the...
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  • Clock, Rubik's Magic, Rubik's Revenge. Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff, German inventor – Ruhmkorff commutator, Ruhmkorff coil. Rumpelstiltskin, German fairy tale...
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    to the primary of a third coil, etc. Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff further developed the induction coil, the Ruhmkorff coil was patented in 1851, and he utilized...
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    of induction coils. Premiere among these instrument makers was Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff, who in 1864 received from Emperor Napoleon III the prestigious...
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  • 15268 15273 Ruhmkorff 1991 GQ3 Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff (1803–1877) was a German instrument maker and researcher who invented the Ruhmkorff coil, used...
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  • of an electric induction coil made by German instrument maker Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff, which produced a small two-inch (50 mm) electric spark when energized...
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    (born 1876) du Moncel, Théodore; Rühmkorff, Heinrich Daniel (1855). Notice sur l'appareil d'induction électrique de Ruhmkorff et les expériences que l'on peut...
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    repeating and then expanding on these experiments Tesla tried powering a Ruhmkorff coil with a high speed alternator he had been developing as part of an...
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  • David Ruelle, Oskar Perron, and Ferdinand Georg Frobenius Ruhmkorff coil – Heinrich D. Ruhmkorff Runge–Lenz vector – see Laplace–Runge–Lenz vector Runge's...
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    adjacent coil gave him the idea of how to build a test apparatus. Using a Ruhmkorff coil to create sparks across a gap (a spark gap transmitter) and observing...
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    transmitters powered by batteries this was usually an induction coil (Ruhmkorff coil). One or more resonant circuits (tuned circuits or tank circuits)...
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  • electromagnetic field'. 1871: Edwin Houston, while setting up a large sparking Ruhmkorff coil to be used in a demonstration, notices he can draw sparks from metal...
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    States U.S. patent 586,193 "Transmitting electrical signals", (using Ruhmkorff coil and Morse code key) filed December 1896, patented July 1897 U.S....
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