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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; 2 January [O.S. 21 December 1861] 1862 – 15 November [O.S. 3 November] 1919) was a Russian Empire-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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky has received more than 165,477 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky is the 158th most popular inventor (up from 176th in 2019), the 648th most popular biography from Russia (up from 719th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Russian Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky ranks 158 out of 426. Before him are Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, Alfred Vail, Gideon Sundback, Peter Henlein, Heinrich Göbel, and Fausto Veranzio. After him are Garrett Morgan, William Murdoch, Hovannes Adamian, Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse, Royal Rife, and Angelo Moriondo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1862, Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky ranks 52. Before him are Théo van Rysselberghe, Infanta María de la Paz of Spain, Anton Ažbe, Cao Kun, Oswald Külpe, and Mikhail Nesterov. After him are Nitobe Inazō, Arvid Lindman, Frederick Delius, Nicholas Murray Butler, Eugen Ehrlich, and Edvard Westermarck. Among people deceased in 1919, Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky ranks 57. Before him are Henry J. Heinz, Friedrich Naumann, Hermann Weingärtner, Hugo Haase, Feng Guozhang, and Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka. After him are Evelyn De Morgan, Raymonde de Laroche, Grand Duke Dmitry Konstantinovich of Russia, Ahmed Muhtar Pasha, Karl Brugmann, and Nikolay Shchors.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky ranks 648 out of 3,761. Before him are Sergei Ivanov (1953), Yevgenia Ginzburg (1904), Ivan Maisky (1884), Lilya Brik (1891), Valery Chkalov (1904), and Pavel Dybenko (1889). After him are Valeriy Brumel (1942), Taihō Kōki (1940), Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859), Aleksandr Mikhailovich of Tver (1301), Pavel Alexandrov (1896), and Khertek Anchimaa-Toka (1912).

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Among INVENTORS In Russia

Among inventors born in Russia, Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky ranks 6. Before him are Oleg Antonov (1906), Vladimir K. Zworykin (1888), Alexander Stepanovich Popov (1859), Léon Theremin (1896), and Nikolai Kardashev (1932). After him are Lucien Olivier (1838), Pavel Yablochkov (1847), Ivan Kulibin (1735), Alexandre Alexeieff (1901), Ivan Polzunov (1728), and Rostislav Alexeyev (1916).

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