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unusual facts about Technische Hochschule


Transportation in Dresden

A faculty of traffic and circulation sciences at the Technische Hochschule was founded in 1949 and transformed into the an independent University of Transport and Communications in 1952 (Hochschule für Verkehrswesen).


Adolf Smekal

Adolf Smekal studied at the Technische Hochschule, Vienna (1912–1913), received his doctorate from the University of Graz (1913–1917), and then studied at the University of Berlin (1917–1919).

Barkhausen–Kurz tube

In 1920, Heinrich Barkhausen and Karl Kurz at the Technische Hochschule in Dresden, Germany used the velocity modulation theory in developing the retarded-field triode that could provide UHF operation.

Max Knoll

In 1956 he returned to Munich and engaged in a series of experiments at the Technische Hochschule, involving the generation of phosphenes by electrically stimulating the brains of himself and other subjects.

Paul Fillunger

Raised in a family of engineers, he studied at the Technische Hochschule in Vienna and took a position in the state-owned railway company in 1906.

Rudolf Inzinger

Born in Vienna, he was a student at the Technische Hochschule in the same city.


see also

Artur Popławski

He started his study at Imperial University of Warsaw (with a Russian–language) in 1879, and moved to ETH Zurich (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich) in 1884.

Francisc Panet

In the early 1930s, he studied at the Deutsche Technische Hochschule in Brno, Czechoslovakia, where he met other two Romanian communist activists, Valter Roman and Gabriel Mureşan.

Gillis Grafström

Grafström studied architecture at the Technical University of Berlin (Technische Hochschule Berlin) and worked later as an architect.

Karl Heinrich Emil Becker

From autumn 1933, he was an ordentlicher Professor (ordinarius professor) of technical physics at the Technische Hochschule Berlin in Berlin Charlottenburg (later, the Technical University of Berlin).