Alexander Alexandrovich Sablukov (; –) was a Russian
Lieutenant General
Lieutenant general (Lt Gen, LTG and similar) is a military rank used in many countries. The rank traces its origins to the Middle Ages, where the title of lieutenant general was held by the second-in-command on the battlefield, who was norma ...
, engineer and inventor. Sablukov is credited with the invention of the
centrifugal fan
A centrifugal fan is a mechanical device for moving air or other gases in a direction perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the fan. Centrifugal fans often contain a ducted fan, ducted housing to direct outgoing air in a specific direction or ...
(1832) and contribution to the development of the
centrifugal pump
Centrifugal pumps are used to transport fluids by the Energy transformation, conversion of rotational kinetic energy to the hydrodynamic energy of the fluid flow. The rotational energy typically comes from an engine or electric motor. They are ...
.
In 1845 Sablukov was in
correspondence with German inventor
Karl Ernst von Baer
Karl Ernst Ritter von Baer Edler von Huthorn (; – ) was a Baltic German scientist and explorer. Baer was a naturalist, biologist, geologist, meteorologist, geographer, and is considered a, or the, founding father of embryology. He was a m ...
.
Publications
* ''Annuaire du Journal des Mines de Russie'', 1836, p. 162.
* ''Mémoire concernant quelques applications et la construction de machines généralement connues sous le nom de ventilateurs ou tarares et l’application nouvelle du même principe pour le déplacement des corps liquides, par Alexandre de Sabloukoff, lieutenant-général du corps des ingénieurs des mines''; Paris, 1841
* ''Ueber die zwekmäßige Construction und einige nüzliche Anwendungen der Ventilatoren oder Windflügel''; von Hrn. Alexander v. Sabloukoff.
Dingler’s Polytechnisches Journal, Issue 81, 1841, Article XIV., p. 52.
See also
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List of Russian inventors
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References
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Inventors from the Russian Empire
Imperial Russian Army generals
1783 births
1857 deaths
Burials at Tikhvin Cemetery