German dairy engineer credited with building the first working centrifuge around 1864, a hand cranked device that separated cream from milk by spinning it, replacing slower gravity based settling; his brother Alexander later refined the design, shown at the 1875 Frankfurt exhibition. No reliable birth or death date for Prandtl survives in the record consulted for this entry.
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FieldDairy engineering and centrifugal separation 1 Antonin Prandtl
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Why this is disputed. Credit for the first practical centrifuge is debated among several nineteenth century inventors working on cream separators and industrial separators around the same period.
Source Centrifuge (Britannica)
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1. Centrifuge (New World Encyclopedia)
New World Encyclopedia, 2023New World Encyclopedia, rev. 2023Quote, New World Encyclopedia, rev. 2023
In 1864, Antonin Prandtl invented the first dairy centrifuge to separate cream from milk.
Centrifuge (Britannica)
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