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Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky

1862 - 1919

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Mikhail Osipovich Dolivo-Dobrovolsky (Russian: Михаи́л О́сипович Доли́во-Доброво́льский; German: Michail von Dolivo-Dobrowolsky or Michail Ossipowitsch Doliwo-Dobrowolski; Polish: Michał Doliwo-Dobrowolski; 2 January [O.S. 21 December 1861] 1862 – 15 November [O.S. 3 November] 1919) was a Russian-born engineer, electrician, and inventor of Polish-Russian origins, active in the German Empire and also in Switzerland. After studying in Germany and while working in Berlin for Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft (AEG), he became one of the founders (the others were Nikola Tesla, Galileo Ferraris and Jonas Wenström) of polyphase electrical systems, developing the three-phase electrical generator and a three-phase electrical motor (1888) and studying star and delta connections. The triumph of the three-phase system was displayed in Europe at the International Electro-Technical Exhibition of 1891, where Dolivo-Dobrovolsky used this system to transmit electric power at the distance of 176 km with 75% efficiency. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky is the 156th most popular inventor (up from 158th in 2019), the 611th most popular biography from Russia (up from 648th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Russian Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky ranks 156 out of 426. Before him are Johann Nepomuk Maelzel, Henri Giffard, Mary Anderson, Peter Henlein, Robert Moog, and Friedrich Zander. After him are Joseph Monier, Paul Baran, Christopher Latham Sholes, Edwin Howard Armstrong, Elizabeth Holmes, and Zacharias Janssen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1862, Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky ranks 48. Before him are Silvio Gesell, Théo van Rysselberghe, Mary Anderson, René Viviani, Leonid Pasternak, and Mikhail Nesterov. After him are Eugen Ehrlich, Oswald Külpe, August Oetker, Nicholas Murray Butler, Cao Kun, and Léon Boëllmann. Among people deceased in 1919, Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky ranks 52. Before him are Gustav Landauer, Adolf Schmal, Adolf Hurwitz, Leo Jogiches, Hugo Riemann, and Vasily Chapayev. After him are Adelina Patti, Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia, Feng Guozhang, Friedrich Naumann, Luigi Illica, and Hugo Haase.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky ranks 611 out of 3,761. Before him are Igor Netto (1930), Pavel Tsitsianov (1754), Alexander Godunov (1949), George Sanders (1906), Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark (1888), and Vladimir Fock (1898). After him are Rodion Shchedrin (1932), Veruschka von Lehndorff (1939), Yevgeni Ivanovich Alekseyev (1843), Alexander Schmorell (1917), Valerian Kuybyshev (1888), and Grigory Margulis (1946).

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Among INVENTORS In Russia

Among inventors born in Russia, Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky ranks 6. Before him are Léon Theremin (1896), Oleg Antonov (1906), Alexander Stepanovich Popov (1859), Vladimir K. Zworykin (1888), and Nikolai Kardashev (1932). After him are Lucien Olivier (1838), Pavel Yablochkov (1847), Alexandre Alexeieff (1901), Oleg Losev (1903), Ivan Kulibin (1735), and Rostislav Alexeyev (1916).

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