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| Remote controlled headlight with 300 cm mirror diameters and 1200-A-Brennkammerlampe |
| Photo: Siemens file SAA35/18Ld302 |
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| Naval headlight with 150 cm mirror diameter, full-automatic high speed lamp with 200 A and electrical remote control |
| Photo: Siemens file SAA35Lk275 |
The headlights of Heinrich
Beck were brought in the future to ever larger performances and came
finally into very large numbers of items with the flier defense to the
application.
After the war the work on the headlight development of one of the two
sons became, Dr.
Harald Beck , with scientific objective (e.g. in the atmosphere research)
resumed. Other arc and applications of plasmas were added; so e.g. the
thermal plasma spraying of high-melting metals. The laboratory was converted
1955 into an institute of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR and attached
in the year 1968 of the technical university into Ilmenau, after Professor
Harald Beck had moved 1962 into the Federal Republic. At this university
the physics of technically usable plasmas is examined in detail, whereby
this branch of research at the chair for
illuminating engineering as well as at the institute in Meiningen,
justified by Harald Beck, were begun. The scientist team in Meiningen continued
to lead the work, whereby here primarily very close-to-applications industrial
projects were pursued. The results obtained thereby could be able to be
quite seen also in the international comparison.
By the union of Germany and by the restructuring of the industrial
landscape in the former GDR, inevitable in the consequence, however most
of the past orderers were omitted. In the course of the efforts to place
the financing of the institute on a new base the legal form of a non-profit
association was aimed at. The close connections to the technical university
are to remain received Ilmenau after possibility.
A first step in the direction toward a continuation of the steeped
in tradition institute became at the 25th Sept. 1991 with the establishment
of our scientific-technologic association " Heinrich Beck institute " in
Meiningen (HBIM) done. We will work as carriers of the research establishment
and the central A advertisement over research contracts and donations will
operate. We will in addition by suitable meetings to the spreading of technical
knowledge in the region to contribute, in order to wake and
increase the understanding for new developments and thus the acceptance
of high technologies in the population to improve. The fortbestand and
development of the institute will be possible, if to make and economically
transfer the available special experiences succeed and admits conditions
on an open research market. The present spheres
of activity are to be extended in the future, e.g. by use of high-power
lasers in the material processing (among other things surface refinement,
cuts and welding quartz glass). Experiences in the area of the high-power
lasers in development and applications actively represented by Dr. Rasmus
Beck, a grandchild of
Heinrich
Beck , which is active in this area since 1969.