Jonas Wenström

Swedish engineer

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In electromagnetism: Development of electromagnetic technology
…1880 by the Swedish engineer Jonas Wenström. Faraday’s 1831 discovery of the principle of the alternating-current (AC) transformer was not put to practical use until the late 1880s when the heated debate over the merits of direct-current and alternating-current systems for power transmission was settled in favour of the latter.
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