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Stanley, William

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Stanley, William (1858-1916)

US electrical engineer and inventor. As chief engineer for George Westinghouse, he demonstrated the first practical use of the transmission of high tension electricity, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts in 1886. Leaving Westinghouse he helped to devise a large-scale system for the distribution of alternating current to provide electric power for industry. Among his inventions were a condenser, a two-phase motor, and an alternating current watt-hour meter.

He was born in Brooklyn, New York. A lawyer's son, he enrolled at Yale as a law student but soon dropped out and returned to New York. In the early 1880s, working as an assistant to Hiram Maxim, he became interested in electricity.



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