Arthur Edwin Kennelly

Arthur Edwin Kennelly (December 17, 1861 - June 18, 1939), was an American engineer in electricity.

Kennelly was born in Colaba, close to Bombay, India. He was the son of an Irish naval officer. In 1893, during his research in electrical engineering, he presented a paper on "Impedance" to the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. He researched the use of complex numbers as applied to Ohm's Law in alternating current circuit theory. In 1902, he investigated the ionosphere's radio spectrum's electrical properties.

Kennelly died in Boston, Massachusetts.

External links

Legacies: Arthur E. Kennelly (http://www.ieee.org/organizations/history_center/legacies/kennelly.html), IEEE History Center (http://www.ieee.org/organizations/history_center/).
Katz, Eugenii, Arthur Edwin Kennelly (http://www.geocities.com/neveyaakov/electro_science/kennelly.html). Biographies of Famous Electrochemists and Physicists Contributed to Understanding of Electricity, Biosensors & Bioelectronics.

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