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See also:PAUL See also:JABLOCHKOV (1847-1-894)
, See also:Russian See also:electrical engineer and inventor, was See also:born at Serdobsk, in the See also:government of See also:Saratov, on the 14th of See also:September 1847, and educated at St See also:Petersburg
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In 1871 he was appointed director of the See also:telegraph lines between See also:Moscow and See also:Kursk, but in 1875 he resigned his position in See also:order to devote himself to his researches on electric See also:lighting by arc lamps, which he had already taken up
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In 1876 he settled in See also:Paris, and towards the end of the See also:year brought out his famous " candles," known by his name, which consisted of two See also:carbon parallel rods, separated by a non-conducting See also:partition; alternating currents were employed, and the See also:candle was operated by a high-resistance carbon match connecting the tips of the rods, a true arc forming between the parallel carbons when this burnt off, and the separators volatilizing as the carbons burnt away
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For a few years his See also:system of electric lighting was widely adopted, but it was gradually superseded
(see LIGHTING: Electric) and is no longer in use
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See also:Jablochkov made various other electrical inventions, but he died in poverty, having returned to See also:Russia on the 19th of See also: |
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