Maximilian Moritz Schröter (25 February 1851 – 12 March 1925) was a German industrial engineer and university professor of

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and the theory of machines.

Life and career

Moritz Schröter was the son of Moritz Schröter, who himself was a university professor. After his father′s death in 1867,

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became the guardian of 16-year-old Schröter. After finishing the Gymnasium in Zürich, Schröter studied at the '' Polytechnikum Zürich'', where he was awarded a diploma in engineering. From 1873 to 1876 he worked in the locomotive factory ''Georg Sigl'' in

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. He then returned to Zürich, to become the university assistant of Georg Veith. In 1879, Schröter became a professor of theory of machines at the

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, where he built a new laboratory for machine design. From 1908 to 1911, he was the university's rector. Schröter helped designing four important machines in engineering history: the refrigerator (1887), the steam superheater (1894/1895), the

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(1897), and the steam turbine (1900).

Bibliography

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: ''Schröter, Moritz''. In: ''Neue Deutsche Biographie'' (NDB). Issue 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007 , pp. 587 {{DEFAULTSORT:Schroter, Moritz 1851 births 1925 deaths 19th-century German engineers 20th-century German engineers Engineers from Munich 19th-century German inventors People associated with the internal combustion engine Scientists from Zürich Technical University of Munich faculty Presidents of the Technical University of Munich