Jonas Wenström

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Jonas Wenström
inventor

Jonas Wenström (4 August 1855 in

kv system was used to transfer 400 horsepower a distance of 15 km, becoming the first commercial application.[3]

Dynamo of Wenström's patent [4]

About the invention of electric light, Wenström wrote: "Edison's new invention of electric light: a glowing carbon strip, is the same thing that I discovered a year ago ... If I had his laboratory, and resources, I would have done the same and better ... a graphite strip between two mica plates provide a more effective light than Edison's."[5]

References

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  2. ^ "Jonas Wenström". Nationalencyklopedin (in Swedish). Retrieved 2009-08-08.
  3. ^ Hjulström, Filip (1940). Elektrifieringens utveckling i Sverige, en ekonomisk-geografisk översikt. [Excerpt taken from YMER 1941, häfte 2.Utgiven av Sällskapet för antropologi och geografi: Meddelande från Upsala univeristets geografiska institution, N:o 29, published by Esselte ab, Stockholm 1941 no. 135205]
  4. ^ US 292079, "Dynamo Electric Machine", published 15 Jan 1884 
  5. ^ "36:61".

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