Søren Hjorth: Inventor of the Dynamo-electric Principle

by Sigurd Smith

SØREN HJORTH

INVENTOR OF THE
DYNAMO-ELECTRIC PRINCIPLE

BY

SIGURD SMITH
C. E., M. I. F.

PUBLISHED BY »ELEKTROTEKNISK FORENING« AT THE
EXPENSE OF THE CARLSBERG FOUNDATION

KØBENHAVN
Printed by J. Jorgensen & Co. (M. A. Hannover)
1912

This pamphlet is published simultaneously
in English and in Danish,
and is distributed among interested
institutions all over the world.

Translated by F. SODEMANN, C. E., M. I. F.

Handsworth, Birmingham,
Feb. 6th, 1851.

... After this wonderful force
has been discovered by Your Excellency,
it has been my pride and interest that
also the utilization thereof should be
originated by a Dane....

(Fragment of a letter from Hjorth
to H. C. Ørsted.)