Editing Diode bridge (section)

== History ==
The diode bridge circuit was invented by [[Karol Pollak]] and patented in December 1895 in Great Britain<ref>[https://depatisnet.dpma.de/DepatisNet/depatisnet?action=bibdat&docid=GB000189524398A British patent 24398].</ref> and in January 1896 in Germany.<ref>[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89048352934;view=1up;seq=389 (Graetz, 1897), p. 327 footnote.]</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=(Editorial staff) |title=''Ein neues Gleichrichter-Verfahren'' |journal=Elektrotechnische Zeitschrift |date=24 June 1897 |volume=18 |issue=25 |page=359 and footnote |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101050985074;view=1up;seq=381 |trans-title=A new method of rectification |language=de}}</ref> In 1897, [[Leo Graetz]] independently invented and published a similar circuit.<ref>See:
* {{cite journal |last1=Graetz |first1=L. |title=''Electrochemisches Verfahren, um Wechselströme in Gleichströme zu verwandeln'' |journal=Sitzungsberichte der Mathematisch-Physikalischen Classe der Königlich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu München (Transactions of the Mathematical-Physical Classes of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Munich) |date=1 May 1897 |volume=27 |issue=10 |pages=223–228 |doi=10.1002/andp.18972981008 |bibcode=1897AnP...298..323G|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044092897610;view=1up;seq=1069 |trans-title=Electrochemical method of changing alternating into direct currents |language=de}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Graetz |first1=L. |title=''Electrochemisches Verfahren, um Wechselströme in Gleichströme zu verwandeln'' |journal=Annalen der Physik und Chemie |date=1897 |volume=62 |pages=323–327 |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89048352934;view=1up;seq=385 |series=3rd series |issue=10 |doi=10.1002/andp.18972981008 |bibcode=1897AnP...298..323G |trans-title=Electrochemical method of changing alternating into direct currents|language=de}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Graetz |first1=L. |title=''Electrochemisches Verfahren, um Wechselströme in Gleichströme zu verwandeln'' |journal=Elektrotechnische Zeitschrift|date=22 July 1897 |volume=18 |issue=29 |pages=423–424 |doi=10.1002/andp.18972981008 |bibcode=1897AnP...298..323G|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101050985074;view=1up;seq=445 |trans-title=Electrochemical method of changing alternating into direct currents |language=de}}
</ref><ref>{{cite book |editor-last1=Strzelecki |editor-first1=Ryszard Michal |editor-last2=Benysek |editor-first2=Grzegorz  |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LqWPPiSM5M0C&pg=PA57 |title=Power Electronics in Smart Electrical Energy Networks |isbn=9781848003187 |publisher=Springer |date=August 29, 2008 |page=57}}</ref> Today the circuit is sometimes referred to as a "Graetz circuit" or "Graetz bridge".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mathworks.in/help/physmod/hydro/examples/graetz-flow-control-circuit.html |title=Graetz Flow Control Circuit |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104072407/http://www.mathworks.in/help/physmod/hydro/examples/graetz-flow-control-circuit.html |archive-date=2013-11-04 }}</ref>