Who is credited with inventing alternating current?

Question

Tesla is widely cited as inventing an efficient AC electric motor, but did he also invent AC current?

Answer 1

Also worth noting is that in the early days there was a hot debate between Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla over the relative merits of AC and DC, with Edison favoring direct current. Give Tesla his props. He did invent the means of generating and transmitting alternating current.
Note: Tesla has also been stiffed by history for his central role in inventing radio communication. Marconi gets all the credit, but Tesla was at least as much responsible for that particular advancement.

Answer 2

Tesla and Westinghouse are most directly responsible for the development of alternating current.

William Stanley designed one of the first practical devices to transfer AC power efficiently between isolated circuits. Using pairs of coils wound on a common iron core, his design, called an induction coil, was an early precursor of the modern transformer. The system used today was devised by many contributors including Nikola Tesla, George Westinghouse, Lucien Gaulard, John Gibbs, and Oliver Shallenger from 1881 to 1889. AC systems overcame the limitations of direct current systems, such as that which Thomas Edison first used to distribute electricity commercially.

The first long-distance transmission of alternating current took place in 1891 near Telluride, Colorado, followed a few months later in Germany. Thomas Edison strongly advocated the use of direct current (DC), having many patents in that technology, but eventually alternating current came into general use (see War of Currents).

The first modern commercial power plant using three-phase alternating current was at the Mill Creek hydroelectric plant near Redlands, California in 1893. Its designer was Almirian Decker, a brilliant young engineer. Decker's innovative design incorporated 10,000 volt three phase transmission and established the standards for the complete system of generation, transmission and motors used today. And through the use of alternating current, Charles Proteus Steinmetz of General Electric was able to solve many of the problems associated with electricity generation and transmission.

Answer 3

.Alternating current generating systems were known in simple forms from the discovery of the magnetic induction of electric current. The early machines were developed by pioneers such as Michael Faraday and Hippolyte Pixii. Faraday developed the "rotating rectangle", whose operation was heteropolar. [8] The first public demonstration of a more robust "alternator system" took place in 1886.[9] Large two-phase alternating current generators were built by a British electrician, J.E.H. Gordon, in 1882. Lord Kelvin and Sebastian Ferranti also developed early alternators, producing frequencies between 100 and 300 hertz. In 1891, Nikola Tesla patented a practical "high-frequency" alternator (which operated around 15,000 hertz). [10] After 1891, polyphase alternators were introduced to supply currents of multiple differing phases. [11] Later alternators were designed for varying alternating-current frequencies between sixteen and several hundred hertz, for use with arc lighting, incandescent lighting and electric motors.[12]

Answer 4

Michael Faraday was an introvert and he knew about AC before any body else. He would agonize for months before publishing a paper.
He had to know about AC because he was the first to discover the relationship between magnetism and current flowing in a wire. He had to have done it both ways = AC.
He also had the unit of capacitance named after him the - farad.
This is a sad story that highlights the fact that if you want to get ahead you have to push yourself and promote yourself.
So my vote goes with Steinmetz because he was the mover and shaker of the moment and he gets the credit.

Answer 5

Charles Proteus Steinmetz

Answer 6

Although many people contributed to the development of alternating current electric power, Charles Proteus Steinmetz is usually given the greatest credit for its development.

A professional electric power engineer for 36 years.

Answer 7

Thomas Edison did no longer invented it . electrical energy isn't an invention. He studied DC , between many different issues. besides he had a agency which many times won licences from different in pick inventors and researched them and stronger the outcomes. to that end , the Tesla occasion human beings declare for his or her pal study to be stolen, as interior the late years of his existence , Tesla - broke and suffering of obsessive-compulsive illness -complained approximately others stole his artwork.

Answer 8

Steinmetz

Answer 9

I think it was James Westinghouse. He was in competition with Edison's direct current and came up with the alternating current as a safer option to electrify homes.

Answer 10

It was Steinmetz who worked out the theory and
developed the AC system we have today.