William Stanley (inventor)

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William Stanley Jr.

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

Illustration from Stanley's US Patent No. 349,611 for the first practical transformer, entitled Induction coil

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

Commons : William Stanley, Jr.  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ William Stanley, Jr. ( Memento December 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), accessed March 30, 2011, (Eng.)
  2. ↑ 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
personal data
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