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  2. Karl Nessler - Wikipedia

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    Karl Ludwig Nessler was born on 2 May 1872 in Todtnau. He was the son of Rosina (née Laitner) and Bartholomäus Nessler, a cobbler in Todtnau, a small town located high in the Black Forest, just beneath the Feldberg. He reportedly conceived the idea of a permanent wave early on.

  3. Perm (hairstyle) - Wikipedia

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    An early alternative method for curling hair that was suitable for use on people was invented in 1905 by German hairdresser Karl Nessler. [5] He used a mixture of cow urine and water. The first public demonstration took place on 8 October 1905, but Nessler had been working on the idea since 1896.

  4. Timeline of electrical and electronic engineering - Wikipedia

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    The interlaced video method is introduced on TVr to reduce image flicker. The transmitter Witzleben uses the new standard with 441 lines and 25 image changes, i.e. 50 fields of 220 half-lines. Until the HDTV era the interlace method remains in use. First movie encoder make it possible not to send the TV live, but to rely on recordings. 1938

  5. History of electric power transmission - Wikipedia

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    Streetcars created enormous demand for early electricity. This Siemens Tram from 1884 required 500 V direct current, which was typical. Much of early electricity was direct current, which could not easily be increased or decreased in voltage either for long-distance transmission or for sharing a common line to be used with multiple types of electric devices.

  6. Joseph Swan - Wikipedia

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    Sir Joseph Wilson Swan FRS (31 October 1828 – 27 May 1914) was an English physicist, chemist, and inventor.He is known as an independent early developer of a successful incandescent light bulb, and is the person responsible for developing and supplying the first incandescent lights used to illuminate homes and public buildings, including the Savoy Theatre, London, in 1881.

  7. War of the currents - Wikipedia

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    The war of the currents was a series of events surrounding the introduction of competing electric power transmission systems in the late 1880s and early 1890s. It grew out of two lighting systems developed in the late 1870s and early 1880s; arc lamp street lighting running on high-voltage alternating current (AC), and large-scale low-voltage direct current (DC) indoor incandescent lighting ...

  8. Charles Proteus Steinmetz - Wikipedia

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    Charles Proteus Steinmetz (born Karl August Rudolph Steinmetz; April 9, 1865 – October 26, 1923) was an American mathematician and electrical engineer and professor at Union College. He fostered the development of alternating current that made possible the expansion of the electric power industry in the United States, formulating mathematical ...

  9. Brent Musburger - Wikipedia

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    Musburger made headlines when he got into a fist-fight with The NFL Today ' s betting analyst Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder in a Manhattan bar on October 27, 1980. [9] However, the fist-fight incident was quickly regarded as water under the bridge as the two cheerfully appeared on The NFL Today the following week wearing boxing gloves on camera.