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3 unusual facts about William Stanley, Jr.


AC power

Major delineations of the concept are attributed to Stanley's Phenomena of Retardation in the Induction Coil (1888) and Steinmetz's Theoretical Elements of Engineering (1915).

Alternating current

William Stanley, Jr. designed one of the first practical devices to transfer AC power efficiently between isolated circuits.

Lucien Gaulard

In 1885, William Stanley, Jr. built the first practical transformer based on Gaulard and Gibbs's idea, the precursor of the modern transformer.


Electric power system

One of Westinghouse's engineers, William Stanley, recognised the problem with connecting transformers in series as opposed to parallel and also realised that making the iron core of a transformer a fully enclosed loop would improve the voltage regulation of the secondary winding.

Roscoe Reynolds

After redistricting changed the composition of the 20th Senate district, Reynolds was challenged by William Stanley, the incumbent from the 19th district.

William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby

In 1582 he travelled to the continent to study in university towns in France, also possibly attending Henry of Navarre's academy at Nérac.


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