Electrical engineers whose own Wikipedia articles credit them with a power generation, distribution or industrial electrification advance: the modern AC power supply system (Tesla), AC motor and transformer theory (Steinmetz), railway air brakes and AC power distribution as an industrialist (Westinghouse), electric power distribution and the incandescent lamp (Edison), telegraph and electrical manufacturing industry founding (Werner and Carl Wilhelm Siemens), the automotive and industrial parts industry (Bosch), the electric battery (Volta), the arc lamp and dynamo (Brush), power system analysis underlying the modern smart grid (Clarke) and the electric arc and its industrial applications (Ayrton). Grouped together as the engineers whose own source articles place their principal work in power and electrical systems, distinct from telecommunications and computing.
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1. Wikipedia: Pearl Street Station
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Pearl Street Station consumed coal for fuel; it began with six 100 kW dynamos, and it started generating electricity on September 4, 1882 (1882-09-04), serving an initial load of 400 lamps to 82 customers.
View the Source Electrical Engineering (Wikipedia)
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Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems that use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism.
View the Source Hertha Ayrton (Wikipedia)
WikipediaHas Member: Hertha Ayrton, lead paragraph: power generation, distribution or industrial electrification advance stated in own articleView the Source Charles F. Brush (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Charles F. Brush, lead paragraph: power generation, distribution or industrial electrification advance stated in own articleView the Source Charles Proteus Steinmetz - Wikipedia
Has Member: Charles Proteus Steinmetz, lead paragraph: power generation, distribution or industrial electrification advance stated in own articleView the Source Werner von Siemens (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Werner von Siemens, lead paragraph: power generation, distribution or industrial electrification advance stated in own articleView the Source Alessandro Volta (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Alessandro Volta, lead paragraph: power generation, distribution or industrial electrification advance stated in own articleView the Source Nikola Tesla (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia contributors, Wikimedia FoundationHas Member: Nikola Tesla, lead paragraph: power generation, distribution or industrial electrification advance stated in own articleView the Source George Westinghouse (Wikipedia)
WikipediaHas Member: George Westinghouse, lead paragraph: power generation, distribution or industrial electrification advance stated in own articleView the Source Robert Bosch (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Robert Bosch, lead paragraph: power generation, distribution or industrial electrification advance stated in own articleView the Source Thomas Edison (Wikipedia)
WikipediaHas Member: Thomas Edison, lead paragraph: power generation, distribution or industrial electrification advance stated in own articleView the Source Carl Wilhelm Siemens (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Carl Wilhelm Siemens, lead paragraph: power generation, distribution or industrial electrification advance stated in own articleView the Source Edith Clarke (Wikipedia)
WikipediaHas Member: Edith Clarke, lead paragraph: power generation, distribution or industrial electrification advance stated in own articleView the Source William D. Coolidge (National Inventors Hall of Fame inductee page)
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Coolidge joined the staff of General Electric Company's Research Laboratory in 1905
View the Source Hans Christian Orsted (Wikipedia)
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discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields
View the Source Percy Spencer (Wikipedia)
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electrical engineer, and inventor of the microwave oven
View the Source Wikipedia: William Grove
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was a pioneer of fuel cell technology
View the Source Ottó Bláthy (Wikipedia)
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During his career he became the co-inventor of the modern electric transformer, the voltage regulator, the AC watt-hour meter, the turbo generator, the high-efficiency turbo generator and the motor capacitor for the single-phase (AC) electric motor.
View the Source Miksa Déri (Wikipedia)
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He contributed with his partners Károly Zipernowsky and Ottó Bláthy in the development of the closed iron core transformer and the ZBD model.
View the Source Karoly Zipernowsky (Wikipedia)
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He invented the transformer with his colleagues (Miksa Déri and Ottó Bláthy) at the famous Hungarian manufacturing company Ganz Works and he contributed significantly with his works also to other AC technologies.
View the Source James Blyth (Grace's Guide biography)
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generation and storage of electricity from wind power
View the Source Gustave Trouvé (Wikipedia)
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He invented a carbon-zinc pocket-sized battery to power his miniature electric automata which soon became very popular. A similar battery was invented and widely commercialized by Georges Leclanché. == The 1870s == Trouvé took part in the improvement of communication systems with several noteworthy innovations.
View the Source František Křižík (Wikipedia)
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His first experiments in Plzeň resulted in the invention in 1880 of the automatic electric arc lamp, the so-called "Plzen Lamp" which was displayed at the International Exposition of Electricity in Paris in 1881.
View the Source Thomas J. R. Faulkner (Wikipedia)
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In 1967, the Mount Coffee Hydropower Project was, in part, named for Faulkner.
View the Source Thomas H. Lee (power engineer) (Wikipedia)
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In the 1960s, he developed the first silicon rectifier which has since replaced the less reliable mercury-arc rectifier in high-voltage direct current transmission.
View the Source Charles Hesterman Merz (Grace's Guide)
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McLellan was a British electrical engineer who pioneered the use of high-voltage three-phase AC power distribution in the United Kingdom, building a system in the North East of England in the early 20th
View the Source Thomas Davenport (Wikipedia)
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Thomas Davenport (July 9, 1802, July 6, 1851) was a Vermont blacksmith who, with his wife Emily, constructed the first American DC electric motor in 1834.
View the Source Moritz von Jacobi (Wikipedia)
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Moritz Hermann von Jacobi (German: [ˈmoːʁɪts fɔn jaˈkoːbi]; 21 September 1801-10 March 1874), also known as Boris Semyonovich Yakobi (Russian: Борис Семёнович Якоби), was a German-Russian electrical engineer and physicist. == Motors == Jacobi began to study magnetic motors in 1834.
View the Source Michael Faraday (Wikipedia)
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Michael Faraday (22 September 1791-25 August 1867) was an English chemist and physicist who contributed vastly to the study of electrochemistry and electromagnetism.
View the Source Ewald Georg von Kleist (Wikipedia)
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Ewald Georg von Kleist (10 June 1700-11 December 1748), also known as Ewald Jürgen von Kleist, was a German jurist, Lutheran cleric, physicist and the inventor of the Leyden jar.
View the Source Pieter van Musschenbroek (Wikipedia)
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Pieter van Musschenbroek (14 March 1692-19 September 1761) was a Dutch scientist credited with the invention of a pioneering capacitor design in the Leyden jar in 1746.
View the Source John Wellington Starr (Wikipedia)
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In 1844, in association with John Milton Sanders (1821?, 1877?), he filed a U.S. patent caveat for an incandescent lamp and generator.
View the Source Charles F. Kettering (Wikipedia)
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Among his most widely used automotive developments were the electrical starting motor and leaded gasoline.
View the Source Gabriel Narutowicz (Wikipedia)
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Narutowicz also directed the construction of the first European hydroelectric power plants in Monthey, Mühleberg and Andelsbuch.
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