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William Falconer King FRSE FRMetS was a Scottish engineer. He was a pioneer in the laying of submarine telegraphy cables.
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Nikola Tesla patented the Tesla coil circuit on April 25, 1891. and first publicly demonstrated it May 20, 1891 in his lecture "Experiments with Alternate Currents of Very High Frequency and Their Application to Methods of Artificial Illumination" before the American Institute of Electrical Engineers at Columbia College, New York. Although Tesla patented many similar circuits during this period, this was the first that contained all the elements of the Tesla coil: high voltage primary transformer, capacitor, spark gap, and air core "oscillation transformer".
Edward Edwin Glanville, was an Irish engineer who assisted Guglielmo Marconi in his experiments in wireless telegraphy.
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