who invented the electric motor and the generator?
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The DC generator and motor were indeed invented by Michael Faraday.  The 3-phase AC generator and motor, which are the basis of all large-scale generation and industrial production today, were invented by the greatest electrical engineer the world has ever known - Nikola Tesla.  Just as importantly, three-phase power was brought to market by George Westinghouse.\nThomas Edison gets a lot of credit for electrical work, but he wasn't nearly as great an inventor as Tesla.
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overall i'd say e=mc2-einstein of course. his theory is 100 years+ old & has yet tobe proven because science hasn't caught up yet in the modern era & the internet & computers & science universally. immediately the profound effects of what thomas edison has done by far contributed the most. have you ever lost power for more than two days. i never have until last year. let me tell you it was rather bleak. water got bad. food got bad. no fresh air & no a/c.thomas edison is #1. not to say the alexander graham bells, the polio vaccine, the x-ray inventor who died from the process of discovery, & much more have all been significant factors to our well being and yes the nuclear people are included for better & for worse.
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A generator is basically a motor that works backwards.  \n\nIn a motor, a wire coil is wound around a magnetic core but not attached to it. The magnetic shaft has bearings either end to allow it to rotate. When current goes through the coil it makes the magnet rotate (electromagnetic induction).\n\nIn a generator, the magnet shaft is rotated by a small diesel engine with a pulley and belt.  The movement of the magnet shaft inside the coil induces electrical current in the wire coil.\n\nCheck www.howstuffworks.com for a decent write up with diagrams.
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OK, let's all recognize the following Filipino inventors:\nRoberto Del Rosario is the inventor of the Karaoke Sing Along System.\nDaniel Dingel claims to have invented a water-powered car.\nFilipino scientist, Pedro Escuro is best known for his isolation of nine rice varieties.\nAgapito Flores has been acclaimed by some as being the inventor of the first fluorescent lamp.\nPedro Flores was the first person to manufactured the yo-yo in the United States.\nFelix Maramba built a coconut oil-fueled power generator.\nI'm not sure how useful a coconut oil-fueled power generator is is in the Scandinavian countries or in Russia, where coconuts are scarce. :-)
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the latest issue of popular mechanics has an article devoted just to this topic.  John Koza is the inventor.\n\nif i recall, the machine reinvented several patents from scratch, invented a complex lens system, as well as differnet kinds of circuits.  \n\nNASA has recently bought a revolutionary antennae that the computer created.\n\ninventions that were reinvented were:\n\n"Jones swiftly rotates through several other recent inventions, all generated using the same technique as the lens system. There are logic circuits and amplifiers and filters, some of them suitable for the challenging low-power requirements of cellphones and laptops. Each took between one day and one month to evolve, generating an electricity bill of more than $3,000 a month."
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you probably need history of electricity. lte me give you a brief one.\nFrom the writings of Thales of Miletus it appears that Westerners knew as long ago as 600 B.C. that amber becomes charged by rubbing. There was little real progress until the English scientist William Gilbert in 1600 described the electrification of many substances and coined the term electricity from the Greek word for amber. As a result, Gilbert is called the father of modern electricity. In 1660 Otto von Guericke invented a crude machine for producing static electricity. It was a ball of sulfur, rotated by a crank with one hand and rubbed with the other. Successors, such as Francis Hauksbee, made improvements that provided experimenters with a ready source of static electricity. Today's highly developed descendant of these early machines is the Van de Graaf generator, which is sometimes used as a particle accelerator. Robert Boyle realized that attraction and repulsion were mutual and that electric force was transmitted through a vacuum (c.1675). Stephen Gray distinguished between conductors and nonconductors (1729). C. F. Du Fay recognized two kinds of electricity, which Benjamin Franklin and Ebenezer Kinnersley of Philadelphia later named positive and negative.\n\nThe Leyden Jar and the Quantitative Era\n\nProgress quickened after the Leyden jar was invented in 1745 by Pieter van Musschenbroek. The Leyden jar stored static electricity, which could be discharged all at once. In 1747 William Watson discharged a Leyden jar through a circuit, and comprehension of the current and circuit started a new field of experimentation. Henry Cavendish, by measuring the conductivity of materials (he compared the simultaneous shocks he received by discharging Leyden jars through the materials), and Charles A. Coulomb, by expressing mathematically the attraction of electrified bodies, began the quantitative study of electricity.\n\nA new interest in current began with the invention of the battery. Luigi Galvani had noticed (1786) that a discharge of static electricity made a frog's leg jerk. Consequent experimentation produced what was a simple electron cell using the fluids of the leg as an electrolyte and the muscle as a circuit and indicator. Galvani thought the leg supplied electricity, but Alessandro Volta thought otherwise, and he built the voltaic pile, an early type of battery, as proof. Continuous current from batteries smoothed the way for the discovery of G. S. Ohm's law (pub. 1827), relating current, voltage (electromotelinks" href="/encyclopedia/O/Ohmslaw.html">Ohm's law), and of J. P. Joule's law of electrical heating (pub. 1841). Ohm's law and the rules discovered later by G. R. Kirchhoff regarding the sum of the currents and the sum of the voltages in a circuit (see Kirchhoff's laws) are the basic means of making circuit calculations\nyou do need advanced studying in this but i think this will help u anywhere. best of luck!!
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All rotating electrical machines can be classed as either "motor" or "generator". The definition is based on the direction of electrical power flow. A motor requires electrical power to provide rotation (and hence useful torque); a generator is driven by an outside torque source to produce electrical power.\n\nFor a machine to work, there has to be a magnetic field created to transfer the mechanical power to/from the stationary portion to the rotating portion.\n\nFor the case of an induction generator, an outside force rotates the shaft of the electrical machine. (You can assume here that the rotor has been magnetized through the use of an external capacitance circuit to provide discrete magnetic poles.) The rotation of the magnetic field, through mechanical means, induces a current to flow in the stator winding. Since the winding is a resistive path, there will also be a potential developed.\n\nThe output (volts and amps) will both be sine waves, operating at a frequency dependent on the rotational speed of the rotor and the number of poles.
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The very first self-powered road vehicles were powered by steam engines and by that definition Nicolas Joseph Cugnot of France built the first automobile in 1769 - recognized by the British Royal Automobile Club and the Automobile Club de France as being the first. So why do so many history books say that the automobile was invented by either Gottlieb Daimler or Karl Benz? It is because both Daimler and Benz invented highly successful and practical gasoline-powered vehicles that ushered in the age of modern automobiles. Daimler and Benz invented cars that looked and worked like the cars we use today. However, it is unfair to say that either man invented "the" automobile.
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In my opinion best thing invented by man is electric power.Its help to develope indusry ato a greate extent
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Nobody invented electricity - it is a naturally occuring phenomenon (for example - lightning) that has been around as long as Earth. Benjamin Franklin is often credited with discovering the properties of electricity (although this is probably a myth), and Thomas Edison invented the electric light.
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Michael Faraday (1791-1867) \nBritish physicist and chemist, best known for his discoveries of electromagnetic induction and of the laws of electrolysis. His biggest breakthrough in electricity was his invention of the electric motor.\nOh check out link on Peter Barlow too!
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By using a steam powered engine to turn electric turbines or generators.
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"An assembly consisting of a magnet mounted on a frame, and a wire coil (armature) that can be rotated within the magnetic field. The function of the generator is to convert mechanical energy into electrical energy."\n\nBasically in a generator you can induce current by rotating a magnet inside a wire coil.  The opposite of this is a motor in which the electricity causes mechanical movement.
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The ancient Greeks and Parthians knew of static electricity from rubbing objects against fur.\n\nIn modern times  Benjamin Franklin's famous "invention" of electricity by flying a kite in a thunderstorm turned out to be more fiction than fact, his theories on the relationship between lightning and static electricity sparked the interest of later scientists whose work provided the basis for modern electrical technology. Most notably these include Luigi Galvani (1737–1798), Alessandro Volta (1745-1827), Michael Faraday (1791–1867), André-Marie Ampère (1775–1836), and Georg Simon Ohm (1789-1854). The late 19th and early 20th century produced such giants of electrical engineering as Nikola Tesla, Samuel Morse, Antonio Meucci, Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, Werner von Siemens, Charles Steinmetz, and Alexander Graham Bell.\nclick here please:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_electricity
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An electric generator is a device used to convert mechanical energy into electrical energy.\n\nThe generator is based on the principle of "electromagnetic induction" discovered in 1831 by Michael Faraday, a British scientist. Faraday discovered that if an electric conductor, like a copper wire, is moved through a magnetic field, electric current will flow (be induced) in the conductor. So the mechanical energy of the moving wire is converted into the electric energy of the current that flows in the wire.The mechanical energy needed to turn the generator comes from the brown hand crank at the front of the generator. In a hydroelectric power plant, the mechanical energy to turn the generator comes from the water turbine, which is turned by the force of falling water. The hand crank causes the red wire to spin inside a magnetic field (the blue lines). As Faraday learned, moving the wire through the magnetic field causes electric current to flow in the wire. The turning red wire is connected to a volt meter, which shows the amount of electric current that is produced. In a hydroelectric plant, the generator is connected to transmission lines that deliver the electricity to your home or business.\n\nThe controls allow you to control the speed and direction of the generator and turn portions on and off for greater clarity. You can also use the radio buttons to show a direct current, or DC generator (with commutator) or an alternating current, or AC generator (without commutator).
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it's a blast.  i had better luck with those electricty generators hooked up to a motor.
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Johann Wolfgang!\n\nHe discovered furfural, worked on the use of platinum as a catalyst, and invented a lighter, known as Döbereiner's Lamp.\n\n:)