Tesla mercury interrupter
Summary
Caption: A Massive Mercury Interrupter Devised by Tesla for Handling 50 H. P. of Electrical Energy at a Rate of 100,000 Breaks Per Second.
Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) Serbian American inventor and engineer who discovered and patented the rotating magnetic field, the basis of most alternating-current machinery. He also developed the three-phase system of electric power transmission. He immigrated to the United States in 1884 and sold the patent rights to his system of alternating-current dynamos, transformers, and motors to George Westinghouse.
Date
01/02/1917
Source
Samuel Cohen, "Dr. Nikola Tesla and his Achievements", Electrical Experimenter magazine, The Electrical Experimenter Co., New York, Vol. 4, No. 10, February 1917, p. 712, fig. 4
Copyright info
public domain