FÖPPL, August (1854-1924)

1894-1922

chair holder

1894-1924

head of the ´Mechanisch-technisches Laboratorium´

Outstanding contributions to research and education

  • Mitteilungen aus dem Mech.-techn. Laboratorium, Vol. 24-33 (1896-1915)
  • Schwingungsversuche an dem Modell einer Lavalschen Turbinenwelle = Vibration tests with a model of a Laval turbine shaft. In: Civ.-Ing. 1895       (Heft 4) (experimental verification of his theory on critical rotational speed of shafts with flywheel mass)
  • Kreiselversuche zum Beweis für die Umdrehung der Erde = gyroscope test proofing the rotation of the earth. In: Druckschr. Der KGL. Bayer. Akademie der Wiss.schaften (1904) (impetus to the development of gyrocompass and SCHLICK´s gyrostatic stabilizer)
  • ´Vorlesungen über Technische Mechanik - Lectures on technical mechanics´ and ´Drang und Zwang´ (leading textbooks for decades)

Noteworthy aside

  • Ludwig Prandtl wrote his dissertation as an early assistant of A. Föppl and was later his son-in-law