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Aurel Stodola

1859 - 1942

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Aurel Boleslav Stodola (11 May 1859 – 25 December 1942) was a Slovak engineer, physicist, and inventor. He was a pioneer in the area of technical thermodynamics and its applications and published his book Die Dampfturbine (the steam turbine) in 1903. In addition to the thermodynamic issues involved in turbine design the book discussed aspects of fluid flow, vibration, stress analysis of plates, shells and rotating discs and stress concentrations at holes and fillets. Stodola was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Swiss Polytechnical Institute (now ETH) in Zurich. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Aurel Stodola is the 236th most popular inventor (down from 228th in 2019), the 102nd most popular biography from Slovakia (down from 85th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Slovak Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Aurel Stodola ranks 236 out of 426. Before him are Thonmi Sambhota, Rodolphe Lindt, George Washington, Pavel Yablochkov, Fritz von Opel, and John Wesley Hyatt. After him are Philo Farnsworth, Tivadar Puskás, Robert Whitehead, Aimo Lahti, Henry Maudslay, and Alexander Parkes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1859, Aurel Stodola ranks 74. Before him are Josef Bohuslav Foerster, Gustave Kahn, Peder Mørk Mønsted, Otto Hölder, Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe, and Anna Palm de Rosa. After him are Paja Jovanović, Jacques Loeb, Kostis Palamas, Louis Majorelle, Kosta Khetagurov, and Virginie Demont-Breton. Among people deceased in 1942, Aurel Stodola ranks 115. Before him are Kaarel Eenpalu, Ahatanhel Krymsky, Otto Herschmann, Heinrich Vogeler, Demetrios Petrokokkinos, and Olga Benário Prestes. After him are Guglielmo Ferrero, Jacques-Émile Blanche, Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, Joseph Schmidt, Ants Piip, and Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Aurel Stodola ranks 102 out of 418. Before him are Peter Machajdík (1961), Ernest Nagel (1901), Štefan Čambal (1908), Magdaléna Vášáryová (1948), Štefan Tiso (1897), and Miroslav Lajčák (1963). After him are Artúr Görgei (1818), Pavol Molnár (1936), Dušan Uhrin (1943), Stan Mikita (1940), Ruzena Bajcsy (1933), and Matthias Bel (1684).

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Among INVENTORS In Slovakia

Among inventors born in Slovakia, Aurel Stodola ranks 3. Before him are Wolfgang von Kempelen (1734), and Slavoljub Eduard Penkala (1871). After him are Jozef Murgaš (1864), and Kálmán Tihanyi (1897).

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