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Ferranti, Sebastian Ziani de
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pronunciation:
[ferantee]
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| Electrical engineer and inventor, born in Liverpool, Merseyside, NW England, UK. He studied at University College London. From his early experiments with dynamos and alternators he conceived the idea of the large-scale generation and distribution of electricity at high voltages. In 1887 he was appointed chief electrician to the London Electric Supply Corporation, and designed a power station at Deptford to supply power to all of London N of the Thames. This scheme was temporarily frustrated by the Electricity Lighting Act of 1888, but it nevertheless contained all the elements of the national electricity grid system which came into being some 40 years later. From 1882 to 1927 he took out 176 patents, and the firm of Ferranti Ltd which he founded in 1905 is still in the forefront of electrical and electronic engineering. |
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