About Søren Hjorth
Lived 1801 – 1870 (aged 68). Søren Hjorth was a Danish inventor, farmer, engineer and railway engineer.
Søren Hjorth (13 October 1801, in Vesterbygaard at Kalundborg in the west of Zealand (Denmark) – 28 August 1870, in Copenhagen) was a Danish railway pioneer and inventor. Before Werner von Siemens, he discovered the dynamo-electric principle in 1854 and received the first patent for a self-excited dynamo.
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Who was Søren Hjorth?
Danish engineer (1801–1870)
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Søren Hjorth was born on 13 October 1801 in Ørslev.
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Søren Hjorth died on 28 August 1870 in Copenhagen.
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Søren Hjorth was an inventor, farmer, engineer and railway engineer.
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Søren Hjorth was Danish.
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