Mihail Konteschweller – un pionier al telemecanicii

Abstract

The paper focuses on the personality of Mihail Konteschweller (May 23, 1897, Craiova – 1947, Bucharest), inventor, engineer, specialist in the field of radio communications who brought important contributions to the Romanian technical higher education. Mihail Konteschweller was a pioneer of telemechanics, his book entitled ‘’Telemechanics’’, one of the first worldwide in the field, was awarded the prize of the Romanian Academy for 1937. In 1934, on the lake of Park Carol, he did the first experiment of radio-controlling a ship model for the first time in Romania. For a short time, towards the end of his life, he taught within the Department of Technique of Low Voltage within the Faculty of Electromechanics of ‘’Gh. Asachi’’ Polytechnic Institute of Iași (1945-1947). Professor Mihail Konteschweller was highly esteemed in Iași, so that, after his early death in his 50s, the engineer series of 1948 was called ‘’prof. Ph.D. eng. Mihail Konteschweller series’’.