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"Dynamo Electric Machine" (end view, partly section, U.S. patent 284,110) A dynamo is an electrical generator that creates direct current using a commutator.Dynamos were the first electrical generators capable of delivering power for industry, and the foundation upon which many other later electric-power conversion devices were based, including the electric motor, the alternating-current ...
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.
In 1912, they introduced a dynamo driven by a directly connected gasoline motor. The engine was 1.5 horsepower (1.1 kW), and the dynamo produced 42 volts at 15 amps. A belt pulley was included for driving an external load. The entire assembly weighed 395 pounds (179 kg). [23] In 1923, a clothes dryer was introduced. The device used a wire mesh ...
A Phoenix dynamo was a type of dynamo designed by W B Esson when he was manager of manufacturer Paterson & Cooper (Edward James Paterson & Charles F Cooper) who were electrical engineers of Glasgow and Dalston. Paterson & Cooper ceased operating in 1895 [2] and their business was resumed by Paterson Cooper & Co Limited of London and Paisley.
In 2022, the Dynamo Motor Company had to phase out the Dynamo Taxi, after Nissan replaced the Nissan e-NV200 Evalia with the Renault Kangoo E-Tech-based Townstar EV, [103] [104] [105] leaving the LEVC TX as the only electric taxi available to London cabbies. [106]
Elliott Company designs, manufactures, installs, and services turbo-machinery for prime movers and rotating machinery. Headquartered in Jeannette, Pennsylvania , Elliott Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Japan-based Ebara Corporation , and is a unit of Elliott Group , Ebara Corporation's worldwide turbomachinery business.
Charles Francis Brush, born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1849, founded the Brush Electric Light Company, which stayed in business in the U.S. until 1889 when it was sold to the Thomson-Houston Company making Brush a wealthy man. [1] In 1880, the Anglo-American Brush Electric Light Corporation was established in Lambeth, London. [2]
The company guaranteed to provide street car service under average conditions for less than two cents per car mile for power. [ 1 ] A gasoline engine was used to drive a dynamo, which in turn operated the electric motor.