Talk:History of electric power transmission

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For a historical article there are very few dates stated. One editor keeps adding Josef Popper-Lynkeus claiming some kind of "discovery" in 1862 but its not clear. It comes up in references[1] but again is not clarified and Hydro-electric power stations by D. Barker Rushmore, page 11 gives a breakdown with many milestones (and does not mention Popper-Lynkeus). Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 20:06, 29 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This article combines the histories both Electric power transmission and Electric power distribution. Either the name should be changed or the info on distribution should be pruned / moved to Electric_power_distribution#History. I'd vote for the latter since there's already a great deal of duplication in the electric utility articles. --Cornellier (talk) 21:56, 14 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Good spot. This is a very large history section and covers both transmission and distribution (If we go by the topic/scope of those articles, noticed they are unverified). This article is also in better shape than those other history sections, they are a bit off fact wise. I would go more for re-naming this article "History of electric power transmission and distribution" and truncating/refocusing the history sections in those other articles to just cover their respective topics (with their ((Main)) tags pointing here). Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 01:42, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

There's also much overlap among Electric_power_industry#History, Electrical_grid#History, and Electrification#History_of_electrification. Further to the comment above one could amalgamate it all into History of electrification and have smaller focused sections in the other above-mentioned articles Electricity_generation#History is a good example. Related articles, perhaps out of scope are High-voltage_direct_current#History_of_HVDC_technology and Power_station#History --Cornellier (talk) 12:00, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Moving this article to History of electrification sounds like a good idea, if that is whats being proposed. Cleanup could go from there. Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 14:29, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I propose moving this article to History of electrification. I'll leave this up for a few days and then go ahead and rename the article. --Cornellier (talk) 22:30, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I've no strong feelings on this, but IMHO, "electrification" is wrong - that sounds like it begins with individual small-scale sites, like Cragside. The history of power transmission (or distribution) is 50 years later, and just as important. If this is the history of the National Grid and its like, that's more specific than electrification (individual disconnected plants with their own power houses) or distribution (which really begins when the local tram generators sold off excess for street lighting) Andy Dingley (talk) 22:36, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

According to electrification the scope of that topic is "the system to generate, transmit, distribute and use electricity." --Cornellier (talk) 02:23, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Most of the article goes through the mid 1960's. The power electronics section, in the first paragraph, goes though devices used in power transmission systems. But the next two paragraphs are unrelated. I don't actually know what is current for HVDC systems, but Lilienfeld's non-working FET isn't used. I am removing the last two paragraphs. If you disagree, discuss it here. Gah4 (talk) 04:39, 7 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Julius Edgar Lilienfeld proposed the concept of a field-effect transistor in 1926, but it was not possible to actually construct a working device at that time.^[1] In 1947, the bipolar point-contact transistor was invented by Walter H. Brattain and John Bardeen under the direction of William Shockley at Bell Labs. In 1948, Shockley's invention of the bipolar junction transistor (BJT) improved the stability and performance of transistors, and reduced costs. By the 1950s, higher power semiconductor diodes became available and started replacing vacuum tubes. In 1956, the silicon controlled rectifier (SCR) was introduced by General Electric, greatly increasing the range of power electronics applications.^[2]

A breakthrough in power electronics came with the invention of the MOSFET (metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor) by Mohamed Atalla and Dawon Kahng at Bell Labs in 1959. Generations of MOSFET transistors enabled power designers to achieve performance and density levels not possible with bipolar transistors.^[3] In 1969, Hitachi introduced the first vertical power MOSFET,^[4] which would later be known as the VMOS (V-groove MOSFET).^[5] The power MOSFET has since become the most common power device in the world, due to its low gate drive power, fast switching speed,^[6] easy advanced paralleling capability,^[6][7] wide bandwidth, ruggedness, easy drive, simple biasing, ease of application, and ease of repair.^[7]

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