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Estonian engineer

Hermann Plauson ( – after ) was an Estonianprofessor, engineer and inventor. Plauson investigated, among other things, the production of power based on atmospheric electricity.

Biography

Plauson was born in Dorpat, Estonia. He was the director of the Fischer–Tropsch "Otto TraunResearch Laboratories" in Hamburg during the Weimar Republic of the s. He built on Nikola Tesla's idea for connecting machinery to the "wheelwork of nature". Plauson's patent no. describe methods to convertalternatingradiantstatic electricity into rectifiedcontinuous current pulses. His systems mainly involved needle & radium- coated electricity conducting balloons or aerostats which were connected to complex converting systems consisting of coils, capacitors, spark gaps etc. He developed an electrostatic generator called Plauson's converter. In , Plauson published a research journal on the subject, titled "Production and Utilization of the Atmospheric Ele