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By the death on August 10 of Prof. Gisbert Kapp, the country loses one of the few remaining pioneers of electrical engineering. Prof. Kapp was born at Mauer near Vienna in 1852, his father being German and his mother Scottish. At the Zurich Polytechnic he was a pupil of Zeuner and Kohlrausch. In 1875 he came to England, but spent several years afterwards in travelling on the Continent and in North Africa. He was appointed engineer to the Chelmsford Works of Messrs. Crompton and Co. in 1882, and in conjunction with Mr. (now Colonel) Crompton he invented a system of compound winding for dynamos. At this period England was the leading country in the world in electrical engineering. In 1886—the year in which John and Edward Hopkinson published their classical paper on dynamo design—Kapp read a paper on a similar subject to the Institution of Electrical Engineers.
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R., A. Prof. Gisbert Kapp. Nature 110, 257 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110257a0
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