Gadolin Axel Wilhelm( famous mineralogist, a general of artillery)
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Biography Gadolin Axel Wilhelm
(1828 - 1892). At the end of the course in the Finnish Cadet Corps in the Mikhailovsky Artillery Academy, . was inspector of classes in the Mikhailovsky Artillery School and a professor of technology at the Artillery Academy, . later - the inspector of arsenals, . permanent member of the Artillery Committee, and an ordinary academician of the Academy of Sciences, . World renown brought him to the theoretical and experimental work on crystallography and mineralogy. His work: "The withdrawal of all crystal systems and their units from one principle" ( "Notes of Russian Mineralogical Society, 1869) made him an honorary member of many Russian and foreign companies. In the field artillery, it is the creation of the theory of bonding tools, . consisting of several layers, . used far, . as well as major work on the cast-iron guns, . rise to significant changes in the gun industry, . He also compiled a series of training courses for the Artillery Academy, St. Petersburg Institute of Technology, where he also lectured. Very important and his work, . printed at different times in the Artillery magazine: "On the resistance of the walls of shells pressure powder gases" (1858), "Theory of shells, . hoops "(1861 - 62);" The new enhancements of casting iron guns "(1862)," Device for determining the pressure of powder gases "(1869)," Mobile zvezdka Vitvorta "(1868)," On the resistance of shells opening the breech (1869).,
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