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Prof. Faraday, of London−Electro-magnetic induction, whence the dynamo, the telephone...
...brake for stopping trains - now standard equipment for railways all over the world. The young inventor soon became fascinated by the possibilities of electricity, as developed by Bell, Edison and others. In 1880 he founded the Westinghouse Machine Co. for the manufacture of high speed engines to drive dynamos for arc lighting. He controlled the Union Switch and Signal Co., which manufactured railway equipment. In 1880 he met William Stanley, who had just invented a self-regulating dynamo for lighting service, and signed a contract with him to conduct experiments for the Union Switch and Signal Co. From this meeting...
...centre of the plane; and with one motor completely out of commission, the aviator can keep on going, even though at a slower speed. The engines are carefully housed to prevent freezing. The fuselages are double-walled like a thermos bottle, with nonconducting material between the walls. A special dynamo provides electricity for heating devices to keep the crew warm in the enclosed cabin, and to prevent gasoline and oil from freezing...
...Review: 'Goldwyn has written one of the funniest books of the season, presumably without intending it.' Anderson cited the following as a particularly fine example of unconscious humor: 'If you can picture a flowering arbour and then picture the subsequent surprise of finding inside of it a perfectly good dynamo you will have conceived the full force of Miss [Geraldine] Farrar's personality. . . . Indeed the figure with which I started falls short of conveying the full effect of Miss Farrar's presence. ... If I had said, therefore, that the arbour concealed one of those marvelous implements that cut, thrash...
...Elihu Thomson, dean of American electrical engineers, inventor of the first practical dynamo, of electric welding, etc.; founder of and consultant to the Thomson-Houston Co., and the General Electric...