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    Moritz Hermann von Jacobi, russified from 1837 as Boris Semyonovich Yakobi (Russian: Борис Семёнович Якоби; 21 September 1801 – 10 March 1874) was a Prussian...
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  • The Jacobi mine was an early naval mine designed in 1853 by German born, Russian engineer Moritz von Jacobi. It was employed by Russia, in the Baltic...
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    parts that exactly reproduce a model. The method was invented by Moritz von Jacobi in Russia in 1838, and was immediately adopted for applications in...
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  • output terminals. Moritz von Jacobi published the maximum power (transfer) theorem around 1840; it is also referred to as "Jacobi's law". The theorem...
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    by her prior marriage to Alexandre de Beauharnais. A student of Moritz von Jacobi, he is known as one of pioneers in galvanoplasty and an expert in...
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  • Fillmore, 74, 13th President of the United States (b. 1800) March 10 – Moritz von Jacobi, German engineer, physicist (b. 1801) March 11 – Charles Sumner, American...
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    by Moritz von Jacobi, his assistant and successor as head of the St. Petersburg electrical engineering workshop. Baron Pavel Lvovitch Schilling von Cannstadt...
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  • independently invented by Joseph Henry the following year. 1834: Moritz von Jacobi invents the first practical electric motor. 1835: Joseph Henry invents...
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    Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (/dʒəˈkoʊbi/; German: [jaˈkoːbi]; 10 December 1804 – 18 February 1851) was a German mathematician who made fundamental contributions...
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    electromagnetic telegraph that was of practical use. This work was taken up by Moritz von Jacobi who in 1842-5 installed an underground cable to provide a telegraph...
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    Sciences), under Prussian-Russian Academician Moritz von Jacobi, Moritz Hermann von Jacobi, Boris Semyonovich von Jacobi (Russian: Борис Семёнович (Морис-Герман)...
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    relatively weak rotating and reciprocating apparatus Prussian/Russian Moritz von Jacobi created the first real rotating electric motor in May 1834. It developed...
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  • (1842 – 1906) Moritz von Jacobi (1801–1874), Prussian-Russian engineer Otto Reinhold Jacobi (1812–1901), Canadian painter Paul Jacobi (14 July 1887 –...
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    of signal transmission. His work was taken over and developed by Moritz von Jacobi who invented telegraph equipment that was used by Tsar Alexander III...
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    steam-powered currency printshop. In 1838, a Prussian academician Moritz von Jacobi (known as Boris Yakobi in Russia), employed at this Department, used...
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  • internal combustion engine Georges Imbert – wood gas Leonardo da Vinci Moritz von Jacobi Nicolaus Otto – internal combustion engine Robert Stirling – Stirling...
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    success of a long submarine line. India rubber had been tried by Moritz von Jacobi, the Prussian electrical engineer, as far back as the early 19th century...
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    set more than 1,500 naval mines, or infernal machines, designed by Moritz von Jacobi and by Immanuel Nobel, in the Gulf of Finland during the Crimean War...
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    von Drais 1817: Tachometer by Diedrich Uhlhorn 1834: First practical rotary electric motor by Moritz von Jacobi 1839: First electric boat by Moritz von...
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  • formulated the law of reversibility of generators and motors. 1834–1839, Moritz von Jacobi German-Russian, engineer and physicist; built a 15 watt motor in 1834...
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    Credit for invention of electrotyping is usually given to the Russian Moritz von Jacobi. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Daniell cell. Bunsen cell...
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    ten. An early electric boat was developed by the German inventor Moritz von Jacobi in 1839 in St Petersburg, Russia. It was a 24-foot (7.3 m) boat which...
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    early seismograph by Boris Borisovich Galitzine; galvanoplastics by Moritz von Jacobi; and early electric lights by Pavel Yablochkov. The Society of Devotees...
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    Academy of Sciences a report drafted by Otto Wilhelm von Struve, Heinrich von Wild and Moritz von Jacobi, whose theorem has long supported the assumption...
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    anecdotes of this sort. In 1869, Heinrich von Wild, alongside Otto Wilhelm von Struve and Moritz von Jacobi, wrote a report from the Saint Petersburg...
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  • 1839 - An early electric boat was developed by the German inventor Moritz von Jacobi in 1839 in St Petersburg, Russia. It was a 24-foot (7.3 m) boat which...
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    witnessed the first ever deployment of galvanic naval mines designed by Moritz von Jacobi and chemical-contact naval mines developed by Immanuel Nobel. In June...
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    colleague Moritz von Jacobi. In 1839, Lenz produced several medallions using electrotyping. Along with the electrotyped relief produced by Jacobi the same...
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    Academy of Sciences a report drafted by Otto Wilhelm von Struve, Heinrich von Wild and Moritz von Jacobi inviting his French counterpart to undertake joint...
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  • match Ub Iwerks (1901–1971), U. S. – multiplane camera for animation Moritz von Jacobi (1801–1874), Germany/Russia – electrotyping, electric boat Rudolf...
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