BRUSH electrical history - a collection.
What's NEW
Here are the most recent additions to the collection. If you are a return visitor, this will be where the items rediscovered or newly identified can be found. In a month or so, these will be moved into the main record by region and date. There are more items gathered and provided by interested people to be scanned and included, so check back often. Links are provided (TOP Menu) for a quick connection to the relevant time period.
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1: Seaman First Class Norville Kent served on the American destroyer USS Brush (DD 745) in WW2 from when it was first commissioned through to the surrender of Japan in Tokyo Bay in 1945. His family have provided a log of activities and a number of photographs showing life at sea, enemy action, and the rescue of downed allied airmen. Go to Norville Kent Collection to see these items.
2: From the "Turbines from Finspang" history book published in 2013, by the ABB Turbinen Company - now part of Siemens. An image of the Ljungstrom first order book - turbines all supplied to drive Brush generators. The first was rated 1000KW (for installation in Willesden - London) delivered in 1913,
3: There's a lot of wind energy out there - if only we can capture it ! One of the first electrical generating windmills was running in 1880, designed and built by Charles Brush, set up in the back yard of his Cleveland home. This video shows the same illustrations you can find on the front cover from the 1890 Scientific American magazine. You can also check out the Brush Windmill page here.
