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Mikhail Osipovich Dolivo-Dobrovolsky (abt. - abt.

Mikhail dolivo dobrovolsky biography of christopher paul Dolivo-Dobrovolsky - Russian innovator-electrician and his inventions. A talented Russian is considered one of the founders of the technique of applying alternating currents. His name is associated with work in the field of creating the technique of three-phase alternating currents. He is the creator of a simple and reliable asynchronous motor to use. An engine of this design is used today.

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MikhailOsipovichDolivo-Dobrovolsky

Born about in Gatchina near Saint Petersburg, Russia

Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]

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Died about at about age 57in Heidelberg, Germany

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Mikhail Osipovich Dolivo-Dobrovolsky was a Polish-Russian engineer, electrician, and inventor.

He was born in Gatchina near Saint Petersburg, into a family of mixed origins, through the connection between a Polish noble family originating from Mazowsze and a Russian noble family. He emigrated to Germany because of the political persecution of Poles after the assassination of Alexander II of Russia (). He studied at the Darmstadt University of Technology (TH Darmstadt) in Germany.

From he worked for AEG. Dobrovolsky, age 22

One of the founders (the others were Nikola Tesla, Galileo Ferraris and Jonas Wenström) of polyphase electrical systems, he developed the three-phase electrical generator and a three-phase electrical motor () and studied star and delta connections.

Mikhail dolivo dobrovolsky biography of christopher columbus He was born in Gatchina near Saint Petersburg, into a family of mixed origins, through the connection between a Polish noble family originating from Mazowsze and a Russian noble family. He emigrated to Germany because of the political persecution of Poles after the assassination of Alexander II of Russia From he worked for AEG. Dobrovolsky, age In he also created a three-phase transformer and short-circuited squirrel-cage induction motor.

The triumph of the three-phase system was displayed in Europe at the International Electro-Technical Exhibition of , where Dolivo-Dobrovolsky used this system to transmit electric power at the distance of km with 75% efficiency. In he also created a three-phase transformer and short-circuited (squirrel-cage) induction motor.

He designed the world's first three-phase hydroelectric power plant in During his life he obtained over 60 patents.

In he received an honorary doctorate from the TH Darmstadt. He died in Heidelberg, Germany, aged

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Mikhail dolivo dobrovolsky biography of christopher In he also created a three-phase transformer and short-circuited squirrel-cage induction motor. He spent his school days in Odesa , where his father was transferred in After secondary school he went at the age of 16 to the Riga Polytechnic , a college founded by Baltic Germans , teaching in German language. At the end of the s, after a series of assassination attempts and finally the murder of Tsar Alexander II in , a wave of anti-Polish repression broke out, with which all progressively oriented students were expelled from their university, which was equivalent to a study ban in all of Russia. Among them was Dolivo-Dobrovolsky.

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