Gisbert Kapp
British engineer
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| Intro | British engineer | |
| Places | United Kingdom Great Britain | |
| was | Engineer Educator | |
| Work field | Academia Engineering | |
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| Birth | 2 September 1852, Vienna, Austria | |
| Death | 10 August 1922Birmingham, Birmingham, West Midlands, West Midlands (aged 69 years) | |
| Star sign | Virgo |
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Gisbert Johann Eduard Kapp (September 2, 1852, Mauer, Vienna – August 10, 1922, Birmingham) was an Austrian-English electrical engineer.
After finishing his studies in Austria, Kapp moved to England where he was naturalized in 1881. He was awarded a Telford Medal in 1885/6. In 1904 he was offered the position as the first Chair of Electrical Engineering at the University of Birmingham, a post he held until 1919.
Kapp developed the basis for the calculation and construction of alternating current, dynamos and the transformer. The Electronic, Electrical & Systems Engineering Department at the University of Birmingham is situated in a building named after him.