Lucien Gaulard

Lucien Gaulard (* 1850 in Paris ; † November 26, 1888 ) was an electrical engineer and invented the modern form of transformers for the transmission of alternating current . Gaulard and John Dixon Gibbs developed a transformer which was exhibited in London's Royal Aquarium in 1881 and which aroused great interest at the American Westinghouse Electric Corporation .

For an exhibition in Turin in 1884, Gaulard built an 80 km long demonstration ring line from Turin to Lanzo Torinese , showing for the first time that the low-loss power supply with his technology was also possible over greater distances.

In the following year, William Stanley built the first practically usable transformer based on this technology, which is now regarded as the forerunner of the modern transformer, which was easy to manufacture and could transmit large amounts of power.

Since the electrical transmission systems in North America still based on Edison shear DC technology, but the developed among others by Gaulard AC technology was promising, experimented Westinghouse since the early 1880s with Gaulard Gibbs transformers and Siemens - generators in Pittsburgh.

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^ Borns: The electrical exhibition in the Aquarium in London , Elektrotechnische Zeitung number 4, 1883, pages 221 to 225

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SURNAME	Gaulard, Lucien
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French engineer and inventor
DATE OF BIRTH	1850
PLACE OF BIRTH	Paris
DATE OF DEATH	November 26, 1888

[1] Borns: The electrical exhibition in the Aquarium in London , Elektrotechnische Zeitung number 4, 1883, pages 221 to 225