Galileo Ferraris

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Galileo Ferraris
Galileo Ferraris

Galileo Ferraris (October 30, 1847 – February 7, 1897) was an Italian physicist and electrical engineer, noted mostly for his studies of alternating current.

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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 in Turin (the same year that Tesla gained U.S. Patent 381,968 ).

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 the Italian Electrotechnical Association and became the first national president of the organization.

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