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Johann Heinrich Winckler Electrician With Soul
There were no qualified structural engineers when Greeks and Romans built their magnificent buildings. Likewise,…
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Did Daniel Gralath Invent Linked Capacitors
The path to the truth concerning the origin of multiple capacitors in series is quite…
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Power for the First Batteries of Capacitors
We have come such a long way from the birth of electricity, it is hard…
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Abbé Nollet Shocks Humans with Capacitors
Electricity was a new science in the middle-eighteenth century. Nobody had experienced a bad electric…
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Was van Musschenbroek Capacitor the First?
Prussian aristocrat Ewald Georg von Kleist created a ‘Leyden Jar’ on October 17, 1745, that…
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Ewald Georg von Kleist Creates Capacitor
We say ‘creates, and not ‘invents’ because energy history is uncertain here. Suffice to say…
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Henney Kilowatt Electric Car Came Close
The Henney Kilowatt electric car came so close to becoming the first mass production version…
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A Bréguet Electric Car Out of Necessity
Necessity some say, is the mother of invention. Certainly many great artists produce their finest…
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Milk Floats Keep Electric Transport Alive
Electric cars reached their peak in popularity in the 1910’s. But by 1920 they had…
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Owen Magnetic Electric Series Hybrid
The Owen Magnetic had an electric-series-hybrid-drivetrain that eliminated the need for a heavy, bulky, expensive…