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   ocr: B 1 - WILHELM FEIN SEBASTIAN ZIANI L f1.1895 DE FERRANTI E 1864-1930 - N. ELECTRIC A made in drill 1887 was by T - a to HE provide FIRST direct power station current H F.J. Rowan, a electricity was built in Godalming, shipbuilder, but England in 1881. However, take-up < it proved to be was slow and the station was closed. L too heavy and cumbersome. An entrepreneur named Sebastian M The first practical electric hand Ziani de Ferranti from Liverpool, N. - drill was made in1 1895 by Wilhelm England realized that a supplyof Fein, an engineer from Stuttgart, alternating current would be much Germa ...