AN INVENTION FOR WINDMILLS. Share full article. Oct. 15, 1887. ... in the transformation of the surplus energy of windy weather by causing it to drive a dynamo, thus converting it ...

At the International Inventions Exhibition in 1885, he was awarded a gold medal for inventing a self-exciting dynamo. He championed the cause of the electrical industry against the Brush patent ...

A: Belgian Znobe Theophile Gramme stumbled across the invention of the first direct-current motor by accident at the 1873 expo in Vienna. He had already created a direct-current dynamo, a ...