Gisbert Johann Eduard Kapp (2 September 1852, in Mauer, Vienna – 10 August 1922, in Birmingham) was an Austrian-English electrical engineer.
[1] In 1904 he was offered the position as the first Chair of Electrical Engineering at the University of Birmingham, a post he held until 1919.
[3][4] Kapp developed the basis for the calculation and construction of alternating current, dynamos and the transformer.
The Electronic, Electrical & Systems Engineering Department at the University of Birmingham is situated in a building named after him.
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