Berend Wilhelm Feddersen
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Berend Wilhelm Feddersen (born March 26, 1832 in Schleswig, died July 1, 1918 in Leipzig) was a German physicist.
discharge composed of (damped) oscillations. He realized that the arise from a coil, capacitor and resistor existing electrical circuit oscillations. Thus he became the co-founder of wireless technology.
Feddersen was co-editor of the Biographical Dictionary and literary and on the history of exact sciences. He was a member of the Saxon Society of Sciences.
Biography
Feddersen lived from 1858 as a private scholar in Leipzig. In 1859 he succeeded in experiments with the Leyden jar to prove that every single electric sparkElectric spark
An electric spark is a type of electrostatic discharge that occurs when an electric field creates an ionized electrically conductive channel in air producing a brief emission of light and sound. A spark is formed when the electric field strength exceeds the dielectric field strength of air...
discharge composed of (damped) oscillations. He realized that the arise from a coil, capacitor and resistor existing electrical circuit oscillations. Thus he became the co-founder of wireless technology.
Feddersen was co-editor of the Biographical Dictionary and literary and on the history of exact sciences. He was a member of the Saxon Society of Sciences.
Works
- Contributions to the knowledge of the electric spark. Inaugural Dissertation, Kiel 1854th Kiel: CF Mohr, 1857.
- Discharge of the Leyden jar, intermittent, continuous, oscillatory discharge, while the law. Essays ... 1857-1866. / Edited by T. Des Coudres. With a portrait of the author in photogravure and 3 lithographic plates. Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 1908. (Ostwald's Classics of the exact sciences. No 166)
- The discovery of electrical waves. Leipzig 1909th
Further reading
- Henke, Martin: Fast-acting spark in a fast mirror - Berend Wilhelm Feddersen (1832–1918) and the analysis of the electrical oscillations. Hamburg: Print on Demand, 2000.