Henry Wilde (engineer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Henry Wilde (engineer)

British electrical engineer

Date of Birth: 19-Jan-1833

Place of Birth: Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 28-Mar-1919

Profession: engineer

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Henry Wilde (1833 – 28 March 1919) was a wealthy individual from Manchester, England who used his self-made fortune to indulge his interest in electrical engineering.
He invented the dynamo-electric machine, or self-energising dynamo, an invention for which Werner von Siemens is more usually credited and, in fact, discovered independently.
At any rate, Wilde was the first to publish, his paper was communicated to the Royal Society by Michael Faraday in 1866.
The self-energising dynamo replaces the permanent magnets of previous designs with electro-magnets and in so doing achieved an enormous increase in power.
The machine was considered remarkable at the time, especially since Wilde was fond of spectacular demonstrations, such as the ability of his machine to cause iron bars to melt.