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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 155,257 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky is the 176th most popular inventor (up from 192nd in 2019), the 721st most popular biography from Russia (up from 749th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Russian Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky ranks 176 out of 354Before him are Georges Claude, Shigeo Shingo, George Washington, Ottaviano Petrucci, Peter Henlein, and Hubert Cecil Booth. After him are Melvil Dewey, Matthew Boulton, Johann Christoph Denner, Garrett Morgan, Traian Vuia, and Friedrich Zander.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1862, Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky ranks 56Before him are Anton Ažbe, René Viviani, Nitobe Inazō, Cao Kun, Adolphe Appia, and Edvard Westermarck. After him are Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria, Oswald Külpe, Paul Adam, Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, Louis Botha, and Sergei Nilus. Among people deceased in 1919, Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky ranks 59Before him are Hermann Weingärtner, Grand Duke Dmitry Konstantinovich of Russia, Adolf Hurwitz, Friedrich Naumann, Ahmed Muhtar Pasha, and Raymonde de Laroche. After him are Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, Daniel Peter, William Osler, Wilfrid Laurier, Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka, and Adelina Patti.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky ranks 721 out of 3,262Before him are Vasili Mitrokhin (1922), Platon Zubov (1767), Khabib Nurmagomedov (1988), Mikhail Miloradovich (1771), Yakov Pavlov (1917), and Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia (1827). After him are Countess of Ségur (1799), Malyuta Skuratov (1600), Oleg Protopopov (1932), Olga Rozanova (1886), Nikolai Kuznetsov (1911), and Talabuga (1300).

Among INVENTORS In Russia

Among inventors born in Russia, Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky ranks 6Before him are Oleg Antonov (1906), Alexander Stepanovich Popov (1859), Léon Theremin (1896), Vladimir K. Zworykin (1888), and Nikolai Kardashev (1932). After him are Lucien Olivier (1838), Pavel Yablochkov (1847), Ivan Kulibin (1735), Rostislav Alexeyev (1916), Ivan Polzunov (1728), and Oleg Losev (1903).