Gramme's dynamo-electrical machine
Gramme's direct-current dynamo. Zenobe Theophile Gramme (1826 - 1901) built the first successful dynamo in 1869, incorporating a ring-wound armature ('Gramme ring'), which after various improvements, he manufactured in 1871. It was the first electric generator to be used commercially, for electroplating as well as electric lighting
Picture No
10216286
Media ID
46010391
Size
4054px x 5979px
(2.9MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Engraving by W. Bazzett Murray in The Illustrated London News, 2 November 1878, page 413
Date
1878
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