Who invented the synchronous motor? and what year?
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Michael Faraday in 1821 was a pioneer in the field of electric motors.  He is credited with making the first electric motor, but it was more experimental than practical.\n\nBut the type of motor we see today was invented accidentally by Zénobe Gramme in 1873.
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The most likely originator of the bicycle is German Karl Drais, then still a baron, who invented his machine in 1817, and patented it.
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william gilbert\n\nWilliam Gilbert first coined the term "electricity" from the Greek word for amber. Gilbert wrote about the electrification of many substances in his "De magnete, magneticisique corporibus". He was also the first person to use the terms electric force, magnetic pole, and electric attraction.
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1) The Telephone \nThe telephone is an instrument that converts voice and sound signals into electrical impulses for transmission by wire to a different location, where another telephone receives the electrical impulses and turns them back into recognizable sounds. In 1875, Alexander Graham Bell built the first telephone that transmitted electrically the human voice.\n2) The History of Computers\nThere are many major milestones in the history of computers, starting with 1936, when Konrad Zuse built the first freely programmable computer.\n3) Television \nIn 1884, Paul Nipkow sent images over wires using a rotating metal disk technology with 18 lines of resolution. Television then evolved along two paths, mechanical based on Nipkow's rotating disks, and electronic based on the cathode ray tube. American Charles Jenkins and Scotsman John Baird followed the mechanical model while Philo Farnsworth, working independently in San Francisco, and Russian émigré Vladimir Zworkin, working for Westinghouse and later RCA, advanced the electronic model.\n4) The Automobile\nIn 1769, the very first self-propelled road vehicle was invented by French mechanic, Nicolas Joseph Cugnot. However, it was a steam-powered model. In 1885, Karl Benz designed and built the world's first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine. In 1885, Gottlieb Daimler took the internal combustion engine a step further and patented what is generally recognized as the prototype of the modern gas engine and later built the world's first four-wheeled motor vehicle.\n5) The Cotton Gin \nEli Whitney patented the cotton gin on March 14, 1794. The cotton gin is a machine that separates seeds, hulls and other unwanted materials from cotton after it has been picked.\n6) The Camera\nIn 1814, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce created the first photographic image with a camera obscura, however, the image required eight hours of light exposure and later faded. Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre is considered the inventor of the first practical process of photography in 1837.\n7) The Steam Engine\nThomas Savery was an English military engineer and inventor who in 1698, patented the first crude steam engine. Thomas Newcomen invented the atmospheric steam engine in 1712. James Watt improved Newcomen's design and invented what is considered the first modern steam engine in 1765.\n8) The Sewing Machine\nThe first functional sewing machine was invented by the French tailor, Barthelemy Thimonnier, in 1830. In 1834, Walter Hunt built America's first (somewhat) successful sewing machine. Elias Howe patented the first lockstitch sewing machine in 1846. Isaac Singer invented the up-and-down motion mechanism. In 1857, James Gibbs patented the first chain-stitch single-thread sewing machine. Helen Augusta Blanchard patented the first zig-zag stitch machine in 1873.\n9) The Light Bulb\nContrary to popular belief, Thomas Alva Edison didn't "invent" the light bulb, but rather he improved upon a 50-year-old idea. In 1809, Humphry Davy, an English chemist, invented the first electric light. In 1878, Sir Joseph Wilson Swan, an English physicist, was the first person to invent a practical and longer-lasting electic lightbulb (13.5 hours) with a carbon fiber filament. In 1879, Thomas Alva Edison invented a carbon filament that burned for forty hours.\n10) Penicillin \nPenicillin was discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928. Andrew Moyer patented the first method of industrial production of penicillin in 1948.
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The Ford Model T of 1923 was the first..But all cars that were developed early had manual transmission..It wasn't till much later that automatics were common.
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Charles Babbage's engines were among the first mechanical computers. His engines were not actually completed, largely because of funding problems and personality issues. \nBabbage realized that a machine could do the work better and more reliably than a human being.\n Although Babbage's machines were mechanical monsters their basic architecture was astonishingly similar to a modern computer. \nThe data and program memory were separated, operation was instruction based, control unit could make conditional jumps and the machine had a separate I/O unit.
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The earliest washing "machine" was the scrub board invented in 1797. American, James King patented the first washing machine to use a drum in 1851, the drum made King's machine resemble a modern machine, however it was still hand powered. \n\nIn 1858, Hamilton Smith patented the rotary washing machine. \n\nIn 1874, William Blackstone of Indiana built a birthday present for his wife. It was a machine which removed and washed away dirt from clothes. The first washing machines designed for use in the home. \n\nhttp://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blwashingmachines.htm
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http://www.donsmcclureconsultants.com/concept_016.htm\n\nTry that one.  But you can just google "Henry Blair inventor"
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Hello..Anyone from thr pals above are right about it. The PERSON WHO INVENTED COMPUTER FOR THE FIRST TIME . IT IS JOHN ATANASSOV. HE DIED ONLY A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO IN USA AND I HAVE THE PLEASURE TO KNOW ONE OF HIS GRANDCHILDREN!!
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When you ask the question "Who invented electric power?", I presume you mean the electric power distribution that we know of today.\n\nOne of the primary contributors would be Nikola Tesla, a Serbian-American electrical engineer and scientist.  He along with the Westinghouse corporation developed the three-phase AC power distribution used around the world today.  Tesla and Westinghouse corp were also heavily involved in developing new generators and motors using three-phase power.  Edison was trying to promote a relatively inefficient DC distribution system at the same time, but failed to gain widespread support.  Though Edison did create inventions, such as the light bulb, that helped make use of the ever-growing power grid.\n\nI had not heard of Gennai Hiraga before, but sounds like a pretty interesting inventor as well.
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Michael Farady of England created electricity through magnets. And people before him knew about electricity for long time, so its difficult to answer who invented it.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Wright_%28inventor%29
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Babbage's machine was really a difference engine.\nThe fist electronic computer was build in Britain by the Post Office Research Branch in 1943.
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Ancient people cleaned their clothes by pounding them on rocks or rubbing them with abrasive sands; and washing the dirt away in local streams. Evidence of ancient washing soap was found at Sapo Hill in Rome, where the ashes containing the fat of sacrificial animals was used as a soap. \n\nThe earliest washing "machine" was the scrub board invented in 1797. American, James King patented the first washing machine to use a drum in 1851, the drum made King's machine resemble a modern machine, however it was still hand powered. \n\nIn 1858, Hamilton Smith patented the rotary washing machine. \n\nIn 1874, William Blackstone of Indiana built a birthday present for his wife. It was a machine which removed and washed away dirt from clothes. The first washing machines designed for use in the home. \n\nThe first electric-powered washing machine (the Thor) was introduced in 1908, by the Hurley Machine Company of Chicago, Illinois. Alva J. Fisher was the inventor. The machine was a drum type with a galvanized tub and an electric motor, for which a patent was issued on Aug. 9, 1910 (US patent #966677 - see patent drawing left). \n\nNow, a little history on a few famous washing machine companies.... \n\nThe Maytag Corporation began in 1893 when F.L. Maytag began manufacturing farm implements in Newton, Iowa. Business was slow in winter, so to add to his line of products he introduced a wooden-tub washing machine in 1907. Maytag soon devoted himself full-time to the washing machine business. \n\nThe Whirlpool Corporation started in 1911 as the Upton Machine Co., founded in St. Joseph, Michigan, to produce electric motor-driven wringer washers. \n\nThe origins of the Schulthess Group goes back over 150 years. Here are some highlights that involve washing machine history: \n\n1904 - Production of the first washing machines.\n1949 - Invention of punched card control for washing machines\n1951- Production of Europe's first automatic washing machines\n1978 - Launch of first microchip-controlled automatic washing machines
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Lewis Waterman in 1884\nhttp://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa100897.htm
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1880's.\n\nThe history of power elevators in the U.S. began in 1850, when a crude freight hoist operating between two adjacent floors was installed in a New York City building. In 1853, at the New York Crystal Palace exposition, the American inventor and manufacturer Elisha Otis exhibited an elevator equipped with a device called a safety to stop the fall of the car if the hoisting rope broke. In this event a spring would operate two pawls on the car, forcing them into engagement with racks at the sides of the shafts so as to support the car. This invention gave impetus to elevator construction. Three years later the first passenger elevator in the U.S., designed by Otis, was installed in a New York City store. In these early elevators, a steam engine was connected by belt and gears to a revolving drum on which the hoisting rope was wound. In 1859 an elevator raised and lowered by a vertical screw was installed in the Fifth Avenue Hotel in York City. In the 1870s the rope-geared hydraulic elevator was introduced. The plunger was replaced in this type by a relatively short piston moving in a cylinder that was mounted, either vertically or horizontally, within the building; the effective length of the stroke of the piston was multiplied by a system of ropes and sheaves. Because of its smoother operation and greater efficiency, the hydraulic elevator generally replaced the type with a rope wound on a revolving drum.\n\n\nThe electric motor was introduced in elevator construction in 1880 by the German inventor Werner von Siemens. His car, carrying the motor below, climbed its shaft by means of revolving pinion gears that engaged racks at the sides of the shaft. An electric elevator was constructed in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1887, operated by an electric motor turning a revolving drum on which the hoisting rope was wound. Within the next 12 years, electric elevators with worm gearing connecting the motor and drum came into general use except in tall buildings. In the drum elevator the length of the hoisting rope, and therefore the height to which the car can rise, are limited by the size of the drum; space limitations and manufacturing difficulties prevented the use of the drum mechanism in skyscrapers. The advantages of the electric elevator, however, including efficiency, relatively low installation costs, and virtually constant speed regardless of the load, spurred inventors to search for a way of using electric motive power in skyscrapers. Counterweights creating traction on electrically driven sheaves solved the problem. Since the introduction of electric motive power for elevators, various improvements have been made in motors and methods of control. At first, single-speed motors only were used. Because a second, lower speed was desirable to facilitate leveling the car with landings, low-speed auxiliary motors were introduced, but later several systems were devised for varying speed by varying the voltage supplied to the hoisting motor. In recent years devices for automatic leveling of cars at landings are commonly used. Originally the motor switch and the brakes were operated mechanically from the car by means of hand ropes. Soon electromagnets, controlled by operating switches in the car, were introduced to throw the motor switch and to release a spring brake. Push-button control was an early development, later supplemented by elaborate signal systems.
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Here are a couple of web sites that approach this in different ways. \n\nhttp://www.circletrack.com/techarticles/84199/\n\nhttp://www.diracdelta.co.uk/science/source/e/n/engine%20excitation%20mechanisms/source.html\n\nHope these help.