William Stanley (inventor)
William Stanley Jr. (born November 28, 1858 in Brooklyn , New York, † May 14, 1916 in Great Barrington ) was an American inventor.
General
Stanley was born the son of a lawyer. At Yale University he studied law from 1876 to 1881. In 1882 he started a job with the inventor Hiram Maxim for one year, after which he worked for two years with various light bulbs. In doing so, he invented a vacuum pump to suck the air out of the glass bulb of incandescent lamps. At the end of 1884 he took a job with George Westinghouse at Westinghouse Electric in Pittsburgh .
From 1885 onwards, Stanley developed significant improvements to Lucien Gaulards and John Dixon Gibbs ' "induction coil" device for alternating current conversion, which resulted in a practically usable transformer . In 1886 Stanley built various AC machines.
In 1890 he founded his own company, Stanley Electric Manufacturing Co. in Pittsfield , Massachusetts , which General Electric bought in 1903 . In 1912 he received the Edison Medal .
Patents
William Stanley, Jr. has registered 130 patents in the field of electrical equipment during his lifetime. The three most important patents are:
- Patent US323372 : Carbon for incandescent lamps. Published July 28, 1885 , inventor: William Stanley.
- Patent US349611 : Induction coil. Published September 21, 1886 , inventor: William Stanley.
- Patent US363559 : Incandescent electric lamp. Published May 24, 1887 , inventor: William Stanley.
literature
- Kurt Jäger, Friedrich Heilbronner: Lexicon of electrical engineers . 2nd Edition. VDE Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8007-2903-6 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ William Stanley, Jr. ( Memento December 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), accessed March 30, 2011, (Eng.)
- ↑ EL Owen: Rediscovering William Stanley, Jr. Part I , Industry Applications Magazine, IEEE, Nov-Dec. 2003, Volume 9, Edition 6, Pages 9 to 12, ISSN 1077-2618 INSPEC 7949020 doi : 10.1109 / MIA.2003.1245790
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SURNAME | Stanley, William |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stanley, William Jr. |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American inventor |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 28, 1858 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Brooklyn , New York |
DATE OF DEATH | May 14, 1916 |
Place of death | Great Barrington |