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medical diagnosis, automobiles, industries, etc. and convinced everyone that without electronics, it is
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Circa 1870 - Prior to the Watt-Hour Meter
Early Metering nees
Like today – a small metering community
Elihu Thompson
Thomas Edison
Elihu Thomson
George Westinghouse
Oliver B. Shallenberger
Robert C. Lanphier
Thomas Duncan
AC versus DC (battle of the currents)
Meter Manufacturers
The Watt-Hour Meter
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Metering Today
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The History Of Electric Metering (UMMA Winter Conference 2018)
1. 10/02/2012 Slide 1
Prepared by Rob Reese
Midwest Regional Sales Manager
for the UMMA Winter Conference 2018
February 7, 2018
The History of Electric
Metering
2. Visionaries, Technical Advancements, and
Legislation
♦ “Founding Fathers” of our Industry
♦ Milestone Breakthroughs, Technical Advancements, and Patents
♦ Chronological Order (somewhat)
♦ A glimpse into the future…
3. Food for Thought
"In history, a great volume is unrolled for
our instruction, drawing the materials of
future wisdom from the past errors and
infirmities of mankind."
Edmund Burke – statesman, member of
British Parliament 1766 to 1794
4. Food for Thought
“I have not failed. I have just found 10,000
ways that won’t work.”
Thomas Edison – American Inventor
and Businessman
5. Food for Thought
Modern Time Example – AMI Systems Adoption and Deployment
Those utilities that are only just now embracing and deploying AMI systems
have the opportunity to learn from the experiences from early AMI adopters.
Learn from History!
6. Harnessing the Power of Electricity
Before we could use electricity, we first had to control it.
Let’s go back in time!
7. Harnessing the Power of Electricity
First Known Observations and Uses of Electricity
Lightning
Possibly the earliest and nearest approach to the discovery of the identity of lightning, and electricity from any other source, is to be
attributed to the Arabs, who before the 15th century had the Arabic word for lightning ra‘ad () applied to the electric ray.
8. Harnessing the Power of Electricity
First Known Observations and Uses of Electricity
Electric Fish
Ancient Egyptian texts from 2750 BCE referred to these fish as the "Thunderer of the Nile". They were again reported millennia later by ancient
Greek, Roman, and Arabic naturalists and physicians. Ancient writers, such as Pliny and Elder and Scribonius Largus, attested to the numbing
effect of electric shocks delivered by the fish, and knew that such shocks could travel along conducting objects. Patients suffering from ailments
such as gout or headache were directed to touch electric fish in the hope that the powerful jolt might cure them.
9. Harnessing the Power of Electricity
First Known Observations and Uses of Electricity
Observations of Magnetism
Ancient cultures around the Mediterranean knew that certain objects, such as rods of amber, could be rubbed with cat's fur to attract light
objects like feathers. Thales of Miletus made a series of observations on static electricity around 600 BCE, from which he believed that friction
rendered amber magnatic, in contrast to minerals such as magnetite, which needed no rubbing. Thales was incorrect in believing the attraction
was due to a magnetic effect, but later science would prove a link between magnetism and electricity.
10. Harnessing the Power of Electricity
First Known Observations and Uses of Electricity
Bagdad “Battery”
According to a controversial theory, the Parthians may have had knowledge of electroplating, based on the
1936 discovery of the Bagdad Battery, which resembles a galvanic cell, though it is uncertain whether the
artifact, dated to 250 BCE to 250 CE, was electrical in nature.
11. Harnessing the Power of Electricity
A Large Time Lapse in Development
Mankind knew something was there, but they couldn’t explain it…
…fast forward to 1600.
1600
12. Harnessing the Power of Electricity
1600 to early 1900’s – Development Accelerates
Our Industry’s “Founding Fathers”
During the renaissance, the age of learning, many, many individuals spent their entire
lives enhancing our understanding of electricity and the craft in which we all work.
13. Harnessing the Power of Electricity
1600 to early 1900’s – Development Accelerates
William Gilbert
(English 1544-1603)
•First distinguished static electricity from
magnetism
•First used the new latin word
“electricus” to define the property of
attracting light objects after being
rubbed
14. Harnessing the Power of Electricity
1600 to early 1900’s – Development Accelerates
Stephen Gray
(English 1666-1736)
•First to make the distinction between
electric conductors and insulators
15. Harnessing the Power of Electricity
1600 to early 1900’s – Development Accelerates
Alessandro Volta
(Italian 1745-1827)
•Invented the first battery, the voltaic pile
•The “volt” was named after him
•Proved that electricity could be created
chemically, and debunked the common
theory that it could only be created by
living things
16. Harnessing the Power of Electricity
1600 to early 1900’s – Development Accelerates
Alessandro Volta
(Italian 1745-1827)
•Invented the first battery, the voltaic pile
•The “volt” was named after him
•Proved that electricity could be created
chemically, and debunked the common
theory that it could only be created by
living things
17. Harnessing the Power of Electricity
1600 to early 1900’s – Development Accelerates
Hans Christian Orsted
(Danish 1777-1851)
•During a demonstration to colleagues of
how a conductive wire could carry an
electric current, he accidentally observed
the movement of a needle on a nearby
compass.
•Was the first to discover that their was a
relationship between electricity and
magnetism
18. Harnessing the Power of Electricity
1600 to early 1900’s – Development Accelerates
Andre-Marie Ampere
(French 1775-1836)
• Continued Orsted’s work
•Discovered that when an electric current
was applied to two conductors, in the
same direction, the conductors would
attract each other, and vice versa
•The “ampere” or “amp” is named for him
19. Harnessing the Power of Electricity
1600 to early 1900’s – Development Accelerates
Michael Faraday
(English 1791-1867)
•Proved that electricity can be induced by
changes in the electromagnetic field
•Expanded Orsted’s and Ampere’s work to
invent “electro-magnetic rotary devices”
•Pre-cursors to our modern electric motors
20. Harnessing the Power of Electricity
1600 to early 1900’s – Development Accelerates
George Ohm
(German 1789-1854)
•Using Volta’s electro-chemical cell,
Ohm discovered a direct proportionality
between the voltage applied across a
conductor and the amount of current –
now known as “Ohm’s Law”
21. Harnessing the Power of Electricity
1600 to early 1900’s – Development Accelerates
Sir Joseph Wilson Swan
(British 1828-1914)
•In 1850, he obtained a British patent for
a partial vacuum, carbon filament
incandescent lamp.
•The lack of a good vacuum and an
adequate electric source resulted in an
inefficient light bulb with a short lifetime.
22. Harnessing the Power of Electricity
1600 to early 1900’s – Development Accelerates
Thomas Alva Edison
(American 1847-1931)
•On November 4, 1879, Edison filed for US patent 223,898
for an electric lamp using "a carbon filament or strip coiled
and connected to platina contact wires".
•This was the first commercially practical incandescent light.
• Lasted only approx. 13.5 hours
•Would further refine the design to extend the lamp’s life to
1,200 hours.
23. Harnessing the Power of Electricity
• These developments, discoveries, and inventions greatly increased our understanding of electricity and left
the world hungry to enjoy its benefits, including electric lighting and motors.
• This desire for electric lighting and the benefits of electric motors lead to a show-down
between two of the most influential individuals in our emerging industry…
25. • Born in Milan, OH
• Initially a telegraph operator – offered
position after saving the station
agent’s 3 year old son
• 1,093 patents
- Automatic repeating telegraph device
- phonograph
• Shrewd businessman
Early Development of the Power Grid
26. Early Development of the Power Grid
• Established a research lab at Menlo
Park, in New Jersey
• Wanted the lab to have "a stock of
almost every conceivable material".
- Every kind of screw made
- Every kind of cord or wire
- Hair of humans, horses, cows, camels,
etc.
• Known as the “Wizard of Menlo Park”
• Here he perfected the incandescent
light bulb
27. Early Development of the Power Grid
• After perfecting the incandescent
light bulb, Edison set his sights on
distributing electricity to his new
customer base.
• Initial model – DC batteries delivered
via wagon
• After that model was found to be
inefficient, Edison opened the Pearl
Street Power Plant in lower
Manhattan
28. Early Development of the Power Grid
• One generator produced enough
power for 800 electric light bulbs.
• In 14 months, the Pearl Street Station
had 508 subscribers and 12,732 light
bulbs
• Initially, electricity was sold at a per
lamp rate
• Later, Edison developed a chemical
ampere-hour meter – a jar containing
two zinc plates connected across a
shunt in the customer’s circuit.
• The change in the plate’s weight
between readings was the measure
of electricity consumption.
30. Early Development of the Power Grid
Edison’s System (DC) had its limitations…
•High line losses mandate generating stations
close to the customers
• Difficult to change voltages with DC
31. Early Development of the Power Grid
Nikola Tesla (Никола Тесла)
(Serbian-American 1856-1943)
•Born in present day Croatia, in the Austrian
Empire
•Even though his father, an Eastern Orthodox
priest, wanted him to enter the priesthood, he
enrolled at Austrian Polytechnic in Graz,
Austria – he would never graduate, addicted to
gambling and argued with his professors.
32. Early Development of the Power Grid
• Early in his career, he actually worked
for Edison in both Paris and New York.
• May have quit over un-paid bonuses.
• Founded the Tesla Electric Light and
Manufacturing Company
• Continued to pursue an AC system
• 1887 – Developed an AC induction
motor
33. Early Development of the Power Grid
• In 1888, George Westinghouse licensed the
motor and transformer designs for $60,000
and a $2.50 royalty for every horsepower
each motor produced.
• 1893 – Westinghouse was awarded the
contract for a two-phase AC generating
system at Niagara Falls
• The AC generation and transmission system
was born.
35. Early Electric Metering
• Now that we could control and use electricity, we needed to make money on
it.
• Edison’s initial rate structure was on a per-bulb basis.
• 1872 - Samuel Gardiner takes out the first known patent on an electric
meter.
– This was a DC lamp-hour meter that was a clock with an electromagnet
that started and stopped the mechanism.
– 1878 - J.B. Fuller takes out a patent on an AC lamp-hour meter that was
a clock operated by an armature that vibrated between two coils.
36. Early Electric Metering
Elihu Thomson
♦1889 - introduced his recording wattmeter (AC or DC – a commutator-type
meter).
♦This was the first true watthour meter, and it was an immediate commercial
success, many utilities adopting it as their "standard" model.
♦Although this meter was initially designed for use on AC circuits, it worked
equally well with the DC circuits in use at the time.
♦The introduction and rapid acceptance of induction-type watthour meters in
the late 1890s relegated the use of this commutator-type meter to DC circuits.
37. Early Electric Metering
♦ 1892 Thomas Duncan develops the first
induction watthour meter to use a single disk
for both the driving and braking element but
the design never went into production.
♦ 1894: With the rapid growth of the electric
industry at this time, AC was now being used
to run motors, and the existing ampere-hour
meters and commutator-type watthour meters
were unable to take into account varying
voltages and low power factors on AC circuits.
♦ Several inventors worked to develop a new
meter to meet this need, but Shallenberger hit
on the most workable approach - a small
induction motor with the voltage and current
coils 90 degrees out of phase with each other.
♦ This concept was refined into the first
commercially produced induction watthour
meter. This model was one of the heaviest
ever offered at 41 pounds and one of the most
expensive of its time.
38. Early Electric Metering
♦ Using concepts put forth by Tesla and
Ferraris, several inventors created
early induction watthour meters
♦ Two coils and a conducting (usually
aluminum) disk. A braking magnet.
♦ Magnetic field from the first coil
generates eddy currents in the disk
♦ Magnetic field from the second coil
interacts with the eddy currents to
cause motion
♦ Disk would accelerate without bound
except for eddy currents caused by
motion through fixed magnetic field
which slows the disk
♦ The end result is that each revolution
of the disk measures a constant
amount of energy
39. Early Electric Metering
Blondel’s Theorem
♦The theory of polyphase watthour metering was first set
forth on a scientific basis in 1893 by Andre E. Blondel,
engineer and mathematician. His theorem applies to the
measurement of real power in a polyphase system of any
number of wires. The theorem is as follows:
■ If energy is supplied to any system of conductors through N
wires, the total power in the system is given by the algebraic
sum of the readings of N wattmeters, so arranged that each of
the N wires contains one current coil, the corresponding voltage
coil being connected between that wire and some common
point. If this common point is on one of the N wires, the
measurement may be made by the use of N-1 wattmeters.
40. Early Electric Metering
• 1920’s - Overload and temperature
compensation
• 1934 - Standardized Socket (“S”) meters
introduced.
• 1930’s - Laminated disks allow multi-element
meters with minimal interaction between
elements.
• 1948 - Magnetic suspension bearings
• 1960 - All manufacturers use magnetic
suspension bearings
41. Early Electric Metering
• Refinement of the basic induction watthour
meter, with variations in the rotor design (disk
vs. cup-shaped) improvements in bearing
technology, improvements in magnet
technology, and the realignment of multiple
inventors and meter manufacturers.
• 1970’s saw the introduction of electronics, first
into registers and later for metrology, eventually
displacing the electromechanical meter by
2006.
42. Today’s Electric Meter
• Currently – AMR/AMI Systems,
communications networks, smart metering,
point of use pricing, enhanced customer
interactions
43. What does the future hold?...
• No one can really as sure, as technological
advancements continue to increase at an
accelerated rate
44. What does the future hold?...
• No one can really as sure, as technological
advancements continue to increase at an
accelerated rate
• What is known…
?
45. References and Resources
• http://www.age-of-the-
sage.org/philosophy/history/learning_from_history.html
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke
• https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/thomas_a_edison
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_fish
• https://www.first4magnets.com/tech-centre-i61/information-and-
articles-i70/a-history-of-electricity-and-magnetism-i80
• History_and_Future_of_Electric_Metering1.1 D Nordell C Print.pdf
– Dan Nordell – XCEL Energy, September 2015
• https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/testing-smart-meter-grid-ami-amr-
applications-energy-domain-shaik
46. Questions and Discussion
Rob Reese
Midwest Regional Sales Manager
TESCO – The Eastern Specialty Company
Bristol, PA
215-310-8809
This presentation can also be found under Meter
Conferences and Schools on the TESCO web site:
www.tesco-advent.com