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It was the first generator to produce power on a commercial scale for industry. Inspired by a machine invented by Antonio Pacinotti in 1860, Gramme was the developer of a new induced rotor in form of a wire-wrapped ring (Gramme ring) and demonstrated this apparatus to the Academy of Sciences in Paris in 1871. Although popular in 19th century ...
Chicago History Museum is the museum of the Chicago Historical Society (CHS). The CHS was founded in 1856 to study and interpret Chicago's history. The museum has been located in Lincoln Park since the 1930s at 1601 North Clark Street at the intersection of North Avenue in the Old Town Triangle neighborhood, where the museum has been expanded several times.
City Museum is a museum whose exhibits consist largely of repurposed architectural and industrial objects, housed in the former International Shoe building in the Washington Avenue Loft District of St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Opened in October 1997, the museum attracted more than 700,000 visitors in 2010.
Located at National Museum of Transportation as Southern Railway Locomotive #6100. 1939 St. Louis: Missouri United States ASME brochure: 79: 1982 Lombard Steam Log Hauler. The first practical example of crawler-tread vehicles now used in agricultural, construction, and military equipment. Located at the Lumberman's Museum. 1910 Patten: Maine ...
Cementland, St. Louis, outdoor sculpture park, future uncertain since death of creator in 2011; Civilian Conservation Corps Museum, St. Louis, closed in 2008 [3] International Bowling Museum, St. Louis, moved to Arlington, Texas in 2010; National Video Game and Coin-Op Museum, St. Louis, closed in 1999 [4] St. Louis Museum
Home Insurance Building Field Museum in Chicago. 1885: Home Insurance Building building was the first skyscraper that stood in Chicago from 1885 to 1931. Originally ten stories and 138 ft (42.1 m) tall, it was designed by William Le Baron Jenney in 1884 [18] [19] Two floors were added in 1891, bringing its now finished height to 180 feet (54.9 ...
During the 1950s he invented the insulating-core transformer, producing high-voltage direct current. He also developed tandem generator technology. The American Physical Society awarded him the T. Bonner prize (1965) for the development of electrostatic accelerators. Van de Graaff died on January 16, 1967, in Boston, Massachusetts. His wife ...
The Woolrich Electrical Generator of 1844, now in Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum, is the earliest electrical generator used in an industrial process. [4] It was used by the firm of Elkingtons for commercial electroplating .