- Galileo Ferraris
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birth_date =October 30 ,1847
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death_date =February 7 ,1897
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field =physics ;engineering
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known_for =alternating current
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footnotes =Galileo Ferraris (
October 30 ,1847 –February 7 ,1897 ) was an Italianphysicist andelectrical engineer , noted mostly for his studies ofalternating current .Biography
Ferraris gained a bachelor's degree in engineering and became an assistant of technical physics near the Regal Italian Industrial Museum. Ferraris independently researched the rotary magnetic field in 1885. Ferraris experimented with types of asynchronous electric motors. The research resulated in the development of an alternating-current motor. In 1888, Ferraris published his research in a paper to the
Royal Academy of Sciences inTurin (the same year that Tesla gained US patent|381968).In 1889, Ferraris worked at the Italian Industrial Institution, a school of electrical engineering (the first school of this kind in Italy; subsequently incorporated in the
Politecnico di Torino ). In the 1896, Ferraris joined theItalian Electrotechnical Association and became the first national president of the organization.External links
* Katz, Eugenii, " [http://chem.ch.huji.ac.il/~eugeniik/history/ferraris.htm Galileo Ferraris] ". Biosensors & Bioelectronics.
* " [http://www.ien.it/ Istituto Elettrotecnico Nazionale Galileo Ferraris] " (IEN) - Official web site (English)
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