The transformation of transformers: A short history of power transformers through the age

Sa？etak From Michael Faraday’s observation of electromagnetic induction in 1831 through today’s largest standard, converter and industrial power transformers, this article summarizes the major steps realized in the development of transformers since the beginning. It also showcases how GE Renewable Energy’s Grid Solutions’ ancestor companies such as DELLE, British Electric, Thomson-Houston, GEC Alsthom, AEG to name few of them, played a pioneering role in that evolution