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Allen B. Wilson invented it during the time period 1850 to 1854. [112] U.S. patent #12116 was issued on December 18, 1854. [113] 1850 Vibrating shuttle. A vibrating shuttle in its carrier. A vibrating shuttle is a bobbin driver design used in home lockstitch sewing machines during the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the ...
John Ernst Worrell Keely (September 3, 1837 – November 18, 1898) was an American fraudster and self-proclaimed inventor from Philadelphia who claimed to have discovered a new motive power which was initially described as "vaporic" or "etheric" force, and later as an unnamed force based on "vibratory sympathy", by which he produced "interatomic ether" from water and air.
The first electromagnetic generator, the Faraday disk, was invented in 1831 by British scientist Michael Faraday. Generators provide nearly all the power for electrical grids . In addition to electricity- and motion-based designs, photovoltaic and fuel cell powered generators use solar power and hydrogen-based fuels, respectively, to generate ...
Thomas Townsend Brown (March 18, 1905 – October 27, 1985) [1] was an American inventor whose research into odd electrical effects led him to believe he had discovered a type of anti-gravity caused by strong electric fields.
Another more complicated belt machine was invented in 1903 by Juan Burboa. [1] [5] A more immediate inspiration for Van de Graaff was a generator W. F. G. Swann was developing in the 1920s in which charge was transported to an electrode by falling metal balls, thus returning to the principle of the Kelvin water dropper. [1] [6]
George Westinghouse Jr. (October 6, 1846 – March 12, 1914) was a prolific American inventor, engineer, and entrepreneurial industrialist based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is best known for his creation of the railway air brake and for being a pioneer in the development and use of alternating current (AC) electrical power distribution .
Tesla's electro-mechanical oscillator is a steam-powered electric generator patented by Nikola Tesla in 1893. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Later in life, Tesla claimed one version of the oscillator caused an earthquake in New York City in 1898, gaining it the colloquial title "Tesla's earthquake machine ".
4000 BC: Probable time period of the first diamond-mines in the world, in Southern India. [125] 4000 BC: Paved roads, in and around the Mesopotamian city of Ur, Iraq. [126] 4000 BC: Plumbing. The earliest pipes were made of clay, and are found at the Temple of Bel at Nippur in Babylonia. [127] [b]