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A power Transformer developed by Gaulard of France and John Gibbs of England was demonstrated in London , and attracted the interest of Westinghouse. Gaulard and John Gibbs , first exhibited a device in London in 1881 and then sold the idea to American company Westinghouse . They also exhibited the invention in Turin in 1884, where it was adopted for an electric lighting system. In 1885 , William Stanley, Jr. built the first practical transformer based on Gaulard and Gibbs' idea, the precursor of the modern transformer. Transformers were nothing new, but the Gaulard-Gibbs design was one of the first that could handle large amounts of power and promised to be easy to manufacture. Westinghouse imported a number of Gaulard-Gibbs transformers and a Siemens AC Generator to begin experimenting with AC Networks in Pittsburgh. SEE ALSO REFERENCES |
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