Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti

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Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti

Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti (born April 9, 1864 in Liverpool , † January 13, 1930 in Zurich ) was a British electrical engineer.

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His Italian father César Ferranti was a photographer, his mother a concert pianist. His first commercial invention was a street lamp arc light that he developed when he was 13 years old. At the age of 16, he and Sir William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) built an electric generator called Ferranti Dynamo and patented it. In 1881 he sold a dynamo for the then significant sum of £ 5 10s.

In 1882 he founded Ferranti, Thompson and Ince Limited . This company was the first to bear his name. In 1905 he founded the company Ferranti Limited, which until its bankruptcy in 1994 was active in all civil and military fields of electrical engineering (electric stoves, refrigerators, radios, radio sets, radar equipment, computer technology, generation and distribution of electrical energy). At the age of 22 he became a senior engineer at the London Electric Supply Corporation and was tasked with the design and construction of the Deptford power station , which went into operation in 1890. During commissioning, he discovered the Ferranti effect named after him .

From 1882 to 1927, Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti received a total of 176 patents for alternators, high-voltage cables , fuses , transformers and turbines . In 1927 he was accepted as a member (" Fellow ") in the Royal Society . He died on January 13, 1930 after a prostate disease in the Zurich Cantonal Hospital in Switzerland. He was buried in Hampstead, London .

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SURNAME Ferranti, Sebastian Ziani de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British electrical engineer
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Liverpool
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1930
Place of death Zurich