Ignacy Mostowski

Ignacy Mostowski (born 1882 in Brzesko, died 1953) is a Polish heating specialist, professor at the Technical University of Lodz.

In 1913 he obtained an engineering degree from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Lviv Polytechnic. In that year he started working at this university in the Department of Theory of Thermal Machines. At that time, he was interested in the problems of counting machines that were almost unknown at the time of the construction of such a machine. Still in his studies he developed and published a theory of logarithmic slider for use in the calculation of multi-digit logarithms. In the years 1919-1939 he worked at the Warsaw University of Technology in the Department of Theory of Thermal Machines. In the ironworks, foundries and rolling mills in Borek Fałęcka near Cracow, at the Augsburg-Nuremberg Machine Factory in Augsburg, Zieliński - Factory of Iron and Iron Works. In the academic year 1921-1922 he stayed in Paris as a French Government scholarship student at the Sorbonne and at the special school "Ecole de Chauffe Rationelle" where he was awarded the title of heating engineer. In 1939 he received his doctorate. During the occupation, he was a lecturer at the State Electric School in Warsaw and then at the State Higher School of Technology in Warsaw.

After the end of the war in 1945, he joined the Technical University of Lodz in the Department of Thermal Technology. After the departure of Professor Bohdan Stefanowski in Warsaw in 1949 he was appointed an associate professor at the Technical University of Lodz. and since 1952 he was the head of the Department of Thermal Technology at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. Bibliography Authoritative control (person):

wiki