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Apr 10, 1778 Arzberg, Bavaria, Germany Died on 28 Dec 1835 (aged 57)
Austrian technologist
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About Johann Arzberger
- Johann Arzberger (10 April 1778, Arzberg, Sechsämterland, Bayreuth Princedom/(today's) Upper Franconia – 28 December 1835, Vienna) was a German-born Austrian technologist. He worked as a manager of equipment of the Fürstlich Salm'sche Eisenwerke ("Princely Salm's Ironworks") by Hugo Franz Altgraf zu Salm-Reifferscheidt (1776–1836) in Moravia. From 1816 on, he served as a professor of mechanical technology at the Polytechnic Institute in Vienna.
- He published scientific articles in the field of mechanics in Gilbert's Annalen der Physik as well as in the Annals of the Polytechnic Institute in Vienna.Arzberger was a pioneer of urban street lighting — with Johann Joseph von Prechtl (1778-1854), he developed a coal gas production plant for illumination purposes at the institute.
- In 1818, there were 25 operational public gas lanterns in Vienna.
- In 1820, he invented an early steam carriage designed for travel on ordinary roads without the need of rails.
- On weekends and national holidays, he gave lectures free of charge.
