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Sigurd Smith
1874–1936
A Danish engineer and technology writer, he helped bring overlooked scientific history to a wider audience. He is best remembered for writing about inventor Søren Hjorth and for a career that linked practical industry with clear technical scholarship.
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Søren Hjorth: Inventor of the Dynamo-electric Principle
by Sigurd Smith
About the author
Born in 1874 in Jordløse near Svebølle, Sigurd Smith trained first as a smith before continuing his studies at Askov, where he worked with Poul la Cour's experimental windmill. He later qualified as a mechanical engineer in 1900 and began working with Copenhagen's electricity works.
From 1905 he was connected with A/S De Forenede Papirfabrikker, becoming chief engineer in 1910. His career reflects a mix of hands-on engineering and wider technological interests, and he later earned the title dr. techn.
As a writer, he is especially associated with Søren Hjorth: Inventor of the Dynamo-electric Principle (1912), a book that helped restore attention to Hjorth's place in the history of electrical invention. He died in 1936 in Charlottenlund.