Yablochkov, Pavel Nikolayevich

Yablochkov, Pavel Nikolayevich

▪ Russian engineer and inventor
also called Paul Jablochkov
born Sept. 14 [Sept. 2, Old Style], 1847, Zhadovka, Russia
died March 31 [March 19], 1894, Saratov
 Russian electrical engineer and inventor who developed the Yablochkov candle, the first arc lamp that was put to wide practical use and that greatly accelerated the development of electric lighting.

      In 1871 Yablochkov was appointed director of the telegraph lines between Moscow and Kursk, a position he resigned in 1875 to devote himself to research on arc lamps. In 1876 he settled in Paris, and late in that year he completed work on his candles, which consisted of two parallel carbon rods separated by a nonconducting clay partition that gradually vaporized as the carbons burned away. For a few years his system was widely used for street lighting in European cities, but it was gradually superseded by incandescent lighting. Yablochkov contributed various other electrical developments but died in poverty.

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