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    Hippolyte Pixii (1808–1835) was an instrument maker from Paris, France. In 1832 he built an early form of alternating current electrical generator, based...
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    produce direct current. The first commutated dynamo was built in 1832 by Hippolyte Pixii, a French instrument maker. It used a permanent magnet which was rotated...
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    direction from positive to negative. When French instrument maker Hippolyte Pixii built the first dynamo electric generator in 1832, he found that as...
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    first direct current commutator-type machine, the dynamo, was built by Hippolyte Pixii in 1832, based on a suggestion by André-Marie Ampère. Commutators are...
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    creating a pulsing DC current. One of the first dynamos was built by Hippolyte Pixii in 1832. The dynamo was the first electrical generator capable of delivering...
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  • (1804–1841), French composer Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail (1804–1869), French educator, author, and founder of Spiritism Hippolyte Pixii (1808–1835), French...
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    the early alternator inventions of 19th century Parisian scientist Hippolyte Pixii, which were later expanded upon by Lord Kelvin and others in the 1880s...
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    early machines were developed by pioneers such as Michael Faraday and Hippolyte Pixii. Faraday developed the "rotating rectangle", whose operation was heteropolar...
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    Faraday's principles constructed by the French instrument maker Hippolyte Pixii in 1832. Pixii later added a commutator to his device to produce the (then)...
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    commutator, in 1826-27. Other pioneers in the field of electricity include Hippolyte Pixii who built an alternating current generator in 1832, and William Ritchie's...
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    he published his findings first. In 1832, French instrument maker Hippolyte Pixii generated a crude form of alternating current when he designed and...
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  • tram Arthur Pitney (1871–1933), U.S. – postage meter Hippolyte Pixii (1808–1835), France – Pixii dynamo Joseph Plateau (1801–1883), Belgium – phenakistiscope...
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  • (1852–1911), philologist Gilles Pisier (born 1950), mathematician Hippolyte Pixii (1808–1835), inventor Henri Poincaré (1854–1912), mathematician and...
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  • States developed a prototype DC motor 1832 French instrument maker Hippolyte Pixii in France developed a prototype DC generator 1833 Michael Faraday developed...
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    produce the magnetic field, was developed later. The machine built by Hippolyte Pixii in 1832 used a rotating permanent magnet to induce alternating voltage...
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  • Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, p. 349. p. fig. 21 Pixii magneto generator, without commutator. Boursin, Philippe. "Histoire de la...
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    development of voltaic currents. The first machine of this kind was due to Hippolyte Pixii, 1832. It consisted of two bobbins of iron wire, opposite which the...
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  • the voltaic battery and worked on the theory of thermoelectricity. Hippolyte Pixii, a French instrument maker, constructed the first dynamo in 1832 and...
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  • electromagnetic generator produced a small DC voltage. Around 1832, Hippolyte Pixii improved the magneto by using a wire wound horseshoe, with the extra...
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  • politician (born 1775) 17 December - Pierre Louis Roederer, politician, economist, and historian (born 1754) Hippolyte Pixii, instrument maker (born 1808)...
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    for limelight, and for electric arcs, an improvement on the work of Hippolyte Pixii. His magneto-electric generator design for decomposing water by electrolysis...
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