Lucien Gaulard 1850 - 1888

occupation:
Electrical engineer, Inventor, Patentee
Nationality:
French
born in:
Paris, Ville de Paris, Île-de-France, France

invented devices for the transmission of alternating current electrical energy; collaborated with John Dixon Gibbs; sold the idea to the American company Westinghouse;

1882, 1884, 1885 - Gaulard and Gibbs applied for patents on their transformer; overturned due to actions initiated by Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti and others.