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Pavel Nikolayevich Yablochkov (also transliterated as Jablochkoff; Russian: Павел Николаевич Яблочков; September 14 [ O.S. September 2] 1847 – March 31 [ O.S. March 19] 1894) was a Russian electrical engineer, businessman and the inventor of the Yablochkov candle (a type of electric carbon arc lamp) and the ...
Pavel Nikolayevich Yablochkov was a Russian electrical engineer and inventor who developed the Yablochkov candle, the first arc lamp that was put to wide practical use and that greatly accelerated the development of electric lighting. In 1871 Yablochkov was appointed director of the telegraph lines.
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Pavel Nikolayevich Yablochkov was born on 14 September 1847 to Nikolai Pavlovich and Elizaveta in Serdobsky, an impoverished village in the Saratov region of the Russian Empire. Yablochkov showed an interested in science and engineering at an early age and, while still a youth, invented a goniometer which was used for land surveys conducted by ...
Pavel Yablochkov can rightfully be considered one of the inventors of the first electrical lighting. It was him who first illuminated the streets of Europe and then – Russian cities.
Mar 31, 2019 · 125 years ago, 31 in March 1894, Pavel Nikolaevich Yablochkov, a Russian scientist, inventor of the “Yablochkov candle”, passed away. His life fell on a significant period in terms of NTP in the domestic and world history.
A Yablochkov candle (sometimes electric candle) is a type of electric carbon arc lamp, invented in 1876 by the Russian electrical engineer Pavel Yablochkov.