His career began with an apprenticeship in Detroit in 1879, which lasted until 1882. Afterwards, he repaired Westinghouse steam engines in southern Michigan. But by 1891, had a job as an engineer at ...

Hammer was born in Cressona, Pennsylvania, on February 26, 1858, was an associate of Thomas Edison and an early aviation supporter and enthusiast. He began his career as an assistant to Edward Weston ...

the first successful application of electric traction probably occurred in 1879, when a locomotive designed by Dr. Werner von Siemens was operated at an exhibition in Berlin. This priority may be in ...

But in 1879, through trial and error, Thomas Edison hit on a combination of thin carbon filament design with better vacuums that were just right. This made him the first person to solve light bulb ...

In the year that Faraday formulated his law of induction, a Scottish physicist was born who consolidated it into a set of mathematical laws on electromagnetism: James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879 ...