SØREN HJORTH

INVENTOR OF THE DYNAMO-ELECTRIC PRINCIPLE

BY

SIGURD SMITH C. E., M. I. F.

PUBLISHED BY »ELEKTROTEKNISK FORENING« AT THE EXPENSE OF THE CARLSBERG FOUNDATION

KØBENHAVN Printed by J. Jorgensen & Co. (M. A. Hannover) 1912

This pamphlet is published simultaneously in English and in Danish, and is distributed among interested institutions all over the world.

Translated by F. SODEMANN, C. E., M. I. F.

Handsworth, Birmingham, Feb. 6th, 1851.

... After this wonderful force has been discovered by Your Excellency, it has been my pride and interest that also the utilization thereof should be originated by a Dane....

(Fragment of a letter from Hjorth to H. C. Ørsted.)