Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti

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Sebastian Pietro Innocenzo Adhemar Ziani de Ferranti (9 April 1864 – 13 January 1930) was a British electrical engineer and inventor who pioneered high-voltage AC power in the UK, patented the Ferranti dynamo and designed Deptford power station.

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Image: Unknown. (Ferranti died in 1930 so photo must be older than that. Enquiries with Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester haven't established who the photgrapher was.)., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.