Alexander Nikolayevich Lodygin (October 18, 1847 – March 16, 1923) (Александр Николаевич Лодыгин in Russian) was a Russian electrical engineer and inventor, one of inventors of the Incandescent light bulb. Events 1009 - The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid Year 1847 ( MDCCCXLVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Events 597 BC - Babylonians capture Jerusalem, replace Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king Year 1923 ( MCMXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Russian ( transliteration:,) is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages Electrical engineering, sometimes referred to as electrical and electronic engineering, is a field of Engineering that deals with the study and application of An inventor is a person who creates or discovers a new method form device or other useful means The incandescent light bulb, incandescent lamp or incandescent light globe is a source of electric Light that works by Incandescence, (a general
Alexander Nikolayevich Lodygin was born in village Stenshino', Tambov guberniya, Russia. TambovSoborJPG|thumb|200px|right|Cathedral in Tambov]] Мост через Цну Guberniya (губе́рния) (also gubernia, guberniia, gubernya) was a major administrative subdivision of Imperial Russia, usually Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending His parents were of a very old and noble family (descendants of Andrei Kobyla like Romanovs), but of very moderate means. Andrei Ivanovich Kobyla (Андрей Иванович Кобыла was a progenitor of the Romanov dynasty of Russian Tsars and many Russian noble families The House of Romanov (Рома́нов rʌˈmanəf was the second and last imperial Dynasty of Russia, which ruled the country from 1613 to 1917 He studied at the Tambov Cadet School (1859-1865). This article refers to the general definition of cadet A Cadet may also be a member of the Cadets, a historical Russian Political party. Year 1859 ( MDCCCLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1865 ( MDCCCLXV) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Then he served in the 71st Belev regiment, and in 1866-1868 studied at the Moscow Infantry School. Year 1866 ( MDCCCLXVI) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1868 ( MDCCCLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap Soon after graduation from his military school he retired from the military and worked as a worker at the Tula weapons factory. Tula (Ту́ла is an industrial city in the European part of Russia, located 193 km south of Moscow, on the river Upa.
In 1872 he decided to go to Saint Petersburg to attend lectures at Saint Petersburg Institute of Technology and to start working on an electrical helicopter (electrolet). Year 1872 ( MDCCCLXXII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Saint Petersburg ( tr: Sankt-Peterburg,) is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology (Technical University (Санкт-Петербургский Технологический Институт (Технический The electrical helicopter would need some sort of artificial lighting that would have to be electrical. He decided to start his helicopter work by developing a source of electrical light for it.
On July 11, 1874, Lodygin was granted Russian patent number 1619 (which he applied for in 1872) for his filament lamp. Events 911 - Signing of the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte between Charles the Simple and Rollo of Normandy. Year 1874 ( MDCCCLXXIV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common A patent is a set of Exclusive rights granted by a State to an inventor or his assignee for a fixed period of time in exchange for a disclosure of an Year 1872 ( MDCCCLXXII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year An electrical filament is a thread of Metal, usually Tungsten, which is used to convert Electricity into light in Incandescent light bulbs (as developed He also patented this invention in Austria, Britain, France, and Belgium. Austria (Österreich ( officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. The Kingdom of Belgium is a Country in northwest Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts its headquarters as well as those For a filament, Lodygin used a very thin carbon rod, placed under a bell-glass. Carbon (kɑɹbən is a Chemical element with the symbol C and its Atomic number is 6 In August of 1873 he demonstrated prototypes of his electric filament lamp in the physics lecture hall of the Saint Petersburg Institute of Technology. Year 1873 ( MDCCCLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology (Technical University (Санкт-Петербургский Технологический Институт (Технический In 1873–1874 he conducted experiments with electric lighting on ships, city streets, etc. Year 1873 ( MDCCCLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1874 ( MDCCCLXXIV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common In 1874, the Petersburg Academy of Sciences awarded him with a Lomonosov Prize for his invention of the filament lamp. Year 1874 ( MDCCCLXXIV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common That same year, Lodygin established “Electric Lighting Company, A. N. Lodygin and Co”. In 1899, Petersburg Institute of Electrical Engineering awarded Lodygin with the honorary title of electrical engineer. Year 1899 ( MDCCCXCIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common
From 1875 he became very interested in the socialist ideas of the Narodniks. Year 1875 ( MDCCCLXXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Socialism refers to a broad set of economic theories of social organization advocating state or collective ownership and administration of the Means of production and distribution Narodniks (Народничество was the name for Russian revolutionaries of the 1860s and 1870s In the 1880s after Narodniks killed Emperor Alexander II of Russia, there were repressions against their organization. Events and Trends Technology Development and commercial production of Electric lighting Development and commercial production of gasoline-powered Alexander (Aleksandr II Nikolaevich (Александр II Николаевич ( Moscow, 29 April 1818 – 13 March 1881 in St Thus, in 1884 he had to emigrate from Russia to France and USA. Year 1884 ( MDCCCLXXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the In 1895 he married German reporter Alma Schmidt, the daughter of an electrical engineer. Year 1895 ( MDCCCXCV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year
In the 1890s, Lodygin invented a few types of filament lamps with metallic filaments; some say he was the first scientist to use a tungsten filament. The 1890s were sometimes referred to as the " Mauve Decade" because William Henry Perkin 's aniline dye allowed the widespread use of that Tungsten (ˈtʌŋstən also known as wolfram (/ˈwʊlfrəm/ is a Chemical element that has the symbol W and Atomic number 74 He got a patent for lamps with tungsten filaments and sold it to General Electric (1906), who began the first industrial production of such lamps. Year 1906 ( MCMVI) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting
In 1907 Lodygin returned to Russia. Year 1907 ( MCMVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year He continued work on a series of his inventions, including a new type of electrical motor, electrical welding, tungsten alloys, electrical ovens and smelting furnaces. An oven is an enclosed compartment for Heating, Baking or Drying. Chemical reduction, or smelting, is a form of Extractive metallurgy. A furnace is a device used for Heating The name derives from Latin fornax, Oven. He taught at Petersburg Institute of Electrical Engineering and worked for the Petersburg railroad. In 1914 he was sent by the Ministry of Agriculture to develop plans for electrification of Olonets and Nizhny Novgorod gubernias. Year 1914 ( MCMXIV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Olonets (Олонец Anus Aunus Olonez is a town in the Republic of Karelia, Russia, situated on the Olonka River, to the east from Nizhny Novgorod (Ни́жний Но́вгород Nižnij Novgorod) colloquially shortened as Nizhny, is the fourth largest city in Russia
After the Russian Revolution of 1917 Lodygin emigrated to USA. See also Russian Revolution (1905 The Russian Revolution of 1916 refers to a series of popular revolutions in Russia, and the events surrounding them The United States of America —commonly referred to as the He declined a Soviet offer to work for their State Plan for Electrification of Russia (1918). A soviet (сове́т, "council" originally was a workers' local council in late Imperial Russia. GOELRO plan ( Russian: план ГОЭЛРО was the first-ever Soviet plan for national economic recovery and development Year 1918 ( MCMXVIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common He died in Brooklyn in 1923. Brooklyn (named after the Dutch town Breukelen) is one of the five boroughs of New York City. Year 1923 ( MCMXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
Lodygin's ideas were almost always ahead of his time. He invented an incandescent light bulb before Edison, but it was not commercially profitable. The incandescent light bulb, incandescent lamp or incandescent light globe is a source of electric Light that works by Incandescence, (a general The lamp with a tungsten filament is indeed the only design used now, but in 1906 they were too expensive. Year 1906 ( MCMVI) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting His diving apparatus is very similar to modern scuba equipment. A scuba set is an independent breathing set that provides a scuba diver with the Breathing gas necessary to breathe underwater during Scuba diving. Even his ideas for an electrical helicopter were used many years later by Igor Sikorsky. Igor Sikorsky (25 May 1889 &ndash 26 October 1972 was born Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky (Игорь Иванович Сикорский
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