Ányos Jedlik

Background

A Hungarian physicist, engineer, and Benedictine monk.

Contribution

Built early rotary electromagnetic machines from the late 1820s and articulated the dynamo (self-excitation) principle, though his work was little publicized internationally.

Associated inventions

• Electric Motor & Generator

Collaborators & contemporaries

• Michael Faraday
• Joseph Henry
• Nikola Tesla
• Galileo Ferraris

Sources & further reading

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• Encyclopædia Britannica — technology & biography topic articlesEncyclopædia Britannica · Encyclopedia

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