Otto A. Knopp

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Otto A. Knopp was an innovator of the standard testing transformer and the Compensation Winding. He was also the patentee of what has become known as the Knopp set in honor of him, [1] and the author of a number of technical reports, including New Current Balance for Calibration Work, published in 1920. [2]

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References

  1. Shepard, William Martin; Allen Green Jones (1910). The Watthour Meter. Technical Publishing Company. pp.  134. Otto A. Knopp.
  2. Magalhaes, F. V. (1921). "Annual Report of Instruments and Measurements Committee". Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. 40: 787. doi:10.1109/T-AIEE.1921.5060721.