William Stanley (physicist) |
William Stanley, Jr. (November 28, 1858 - May 14, 1916) was an
American physicist born in
Brooklyn, New
York.
In 1885, Stanley built the first practical alternating
current device based on Lucien Gaulard and John Gibbs' idea. This device was called an
induction coil. It was the precursor to the modern transformer. The induction coil that Stanley built was very primitive.
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