Dagobert Müller von Thomamühl

Dagobert Müller von Thomamühl
Born 24 June 1880
Trieste
Died 10 January 1956(1956-01-10) (aged 75)
Klagenfurt
Nationality Austrian
Occupation Engineer
Engineering career
Discipline Civil, Mechanical, Naval architect
Projects Photoelectric switch
Significant design torpedoes and hovercraft

Dagobert Müller von Thomamühl (born June 24, 1880 in Trieste , died January 10, 1956 in Klagenfurt ) was an Austrian naval officer and inventor.

Life

Dagobert Müller-Thomamühl attended from 1890 to 1895 the secondary school in Pula and from 1895 to 1899 the Naval Academy in Rijeka. He took part in 1900/1901 as a midshipman in the circumnavigation of the SMS "Danube". From 1904 to 1918 he was commander and flotilla leader on torpedo boats and destroyers. In 1910 he founded the diving school of the Austrian Navy and reached, as the first non-armored diver, the depth of 64 m in the Mediterranean.

Müller-Thomamühl designed directional controllers for torpedoes and torpedo search equipment and in 1915 built the first air cushion torpedo speedboat. He founded the torpedo command of the Austrian navy and in 1918 made experiments with aircraft torpedoes. He was also the inventor of the photoelectric switch . This device was ready for use in 1916 and was patented in Austria in 1924. In the inter-war period Müller-Thomamühl built a car factory in Maribor and in Croatia some hydroelectric power stations. He led until 1945 a technical office and a trading company for the representation of shipyards and marine equipment.

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