Who is the inventor of the transformer?
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Stanley William Stanley, inventor of the induction coil, or what is known today as a transformer, was born on November 28, 1858 in Brooklyn.
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anybody that produced generators!
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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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Lewis Waterman in 1884\nhttp://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa100897.htm
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This was the dream of Nikola Tesla.\nNikola Tesla (Smiljan, near Gospic, Austrian Empire (now Croatia), July 10, 1856 – c. January 7, 1943 in New York) was a Serbian-American inventor, physicist, mechanical engineer and electrical engineer.\n\nHis nationality is disputed between Croatians and Serbs. Tesla himself said that he was equally proud of his Serbian heritage as of his Croatian homeland [1].\n\nTesla is recognized among the most accomplished scientists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His patents and theoretical work form the basis of modern alternating current electric power (AC) systems, including the polyphase power distribution systems and AC motor, with which he contributed to the Second Industrial Revolution.\n\nIn the United States, Tesla's fame rivaled that of any other inventor or scientist in history or in popular culture. After his demonstration of wireless communication in 1893 and after being the victor in the "War of Currents", he was widely respected as America's greatest electrical engineer. Much of his early work pioneered modern electrical engineering and many of his discoveries were of groundbreaking importance. Never putting a large focus on his finances, Tesla died impoverished and forgotten at the age of 86. In his later years, Tesla was regarded as a mad scientist and became noted for making bizarre claims about possible scientific developments\n\nWireless energy transfer, by definition, does not require a physical medium through which to flow. Anyone can demonstrate that energy can be transmitted without a direct physical connection by simply touching the ends of a wire, briefly, to the ends of a small battery. Hold the wire near a compass needle while you do this and you'll see the compass needle twitch. It takes energy to make something move, so you've transmitted energy wirelessly. The needle moves because the electric current which briefly flows through the wire generates a magnetic field which acts on the needle (see electromagnetic induction and magnetic field for more information).\n\nAnother, more dramatic demonstration of wireless energy uses a radio transmitter generating more than a few watts, such as an amateur radio transmitter. A Fluorescent lamp with no wires attached to it, held near the antenna, will glow when the transmitter is activated. Send "SOS" and the light blinks "SOS". The transmitted energy causes the gas inside the lamp to glow, like the northern lights.\n\nOnce the basic principle is established, then the problem is to concentrate the energy of the transmission so that most of it is received where it can be converted into useful power. Think of a flashlight that lets you focus the light beam or spread it out so that it's very wide. If you wanted to shine the flashlight on a solar cell, you'd want the flashlight's beam to be tightly focussed to reduce the amount of energy which does not fall on the receiver and is lost.\n\nEarly systems (such as Tesla proposed) were incapable of such "focusing" of transmitted energy, because the necessary antenna size is impractically large at low frequencies (see extremely low frequency radio waves). Without focusing, much of the energy would be lost to the atmosphere.\n\nThe advent of technology for much higher transmission frequencies (such as those used by microwave transmitters) created the possibility of "beaming" the energy through the use of directional antennas, such as the one invented by Hidetsugu Yagi. Lasers, which create a coherent and tightly "beamed" form of light energy, are even more appropriate.\n\nIn most cases the cost of such solutions is much higher than simply using copper wire. Wireless energy transfer, then, is most interesting for applications where the energy receiver can't be copper-tethered to the energy source — such as sending energy to an airplane or spacecraft, or another planet, or in the case of
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Edison was an inventor or maybe an engineer but NOT a scientist. \n\nHe lived in New Jersey. He built one of the first modern research labs, with specialists from many different fields. With his team, he pioneered movies, and improved the telephone. He invented the grammophone. He lead the development of the lightbulbs we use today. \n\nThere is a huge amount of information about him on the web. Look him up.
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Tesla Coils or the creator of the Tesla Coil, Nikola Tesla.
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Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices which greatly influenced life in the 20th century. Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park" by a newspaper reporter, he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production to the process of invention, and can therefore be credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory. Some of the inventions credited to him were not completely original, but alterations of earlier patents (most famously the light bulb), or were actually the work of his numerous employees. Nevertheless, Edison is considered one of the most prolific inventors in history, holding 1,093 U.S. patents in his name, as well as many patents in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany.
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Yes - he was an American physician and he invented the first Woman's vibr@tor in 1869.  It was powered by steam.
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Edison : A Biography, by Matthew Josephson
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Yes. Nikola Tesla actually invented the radio, but Marconi took (and still gets) credit for it.
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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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The atoms of iron line up with the magnetic field produced by the changing voltage.  This prevents the magnetic field (and thus, electric field) from decresing so quickly  This effect greatly increases the efficiency of the transformer.
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Possibly Rectangular Series Transformer (RST).  See Page 7 of the link.
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THomas Edison invented the light bulb.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla\n\nI'm not sure which device of his you are refering to, but wikipedia's page on him is surprisingly comprehensive, and there is a list of his devices on the right-hand side with links/diagrams\n\nHope that helps!
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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