William Stanley, Jr.

William Stanley, Jr. ( born November 28, 1858 in Brooklyn, New York, † May 14 1916 in Great Barrington ) was an American inventor.

General

Stanly was born the son of a lawyer. At Yale University, he studied from 1876 to 1881 jurisprudence. In 1882 he joined the inventor Hiram Maxim to a site for a year, after which he worked for two years with different bulbs. He invented a vacuum pump for exhausting the air out of the flask of incandescent lamps. The end of 1884 he took a job with George Westinghouse at Westinghouse Electric in Pittsburgh.

Stanley developed from 1885 significant improvements to Lucien Gaulards and John Dixon Gibbs' " induction coil " said unit to AC conversion by, which led to a practically usable transformer. 1886 Stanley built several AC machines.

In 1890 he founded his own company, Stanley Electric Manufacturing Co. in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, which was bought in 1903 by General Electric. In 1912 he received the Edison Medal.

Patents

William Stanley, Jr. was able to sign over seinens life 130 patents in the area of electrical equipment. The three most important patents are:

• Patent US0323372: Carbon for incandescent lamps.
• Patent US0349611: Induction coil.
• Patent US0363559: Incandescent electric lamp.