The brothers decided to move to Northern Italy, where they had already installed several power plants, and in 1895 they built a large factory in Pavia. But after an acrimonious dispute with its larger German rivals, the firm lost the lighting contract for the city of Munich in 1893. The firm was initially rather successful, and total employment at its height has been estimated at 150–200 (for the family business in Munich, see Hettler, 1996). The dynamo division alone employed some fifty people. The new, enlarged factory, started in 1885 with financial help from his mother Pauline’s (1858–1920) wealthy father, was managed by his father Hermann (1847–1902), a businessman. The Einstein brothers’ Munich electrical engineering firm built and installed dynamos, power plants, and electric lighting systems, largely invented and patented by Albert’s uncle Jakob (1850– 1912), an engineer. Balazs, drawing on recent work in a variety of areas: experimental tests of general relativity and the role of the cosmological constant new topics based on recently available information, such as the Einstein family business and its influence on young Einstein his love affairs, first and second marriages, and other women in his life black hole physics and inadequate discussions of the nature of Einstein’s light quantum hypothesis the reasons for his discontent with quantum mechanics the origins of special relativity and the role of local time the development of general relativity and the role of metric, affine connection, and Riemann tensor in the theory his views on the significance of general relativity and the relation between physics and geometry and his hopes for a unified field theory.Įinstein Family Business.
This essay extends and corrects the original entries by Martin J. For the original article on Einstein see DSB, vol.
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