Electrical Generator

The electrical generator is most likely the invention of Dr. Victor Mordenheim. It is impossible to date its creation with certainty however. His laboratory pump is effectively an electrical generator in reverse, converting electrical energy into kinetic energy. It is an electrical electrical motor, a marvelously compact one, and its invention dates to 712 BC at the latest. His hand-cranked lightning box is an electrical generator properly speaking, albeit a very inefficient one converting chemical energy into kinetic energy and kinetic energy into electrical energy. It had already been in existence for some time when it was mentioned in 755 BC in Van Richten's Arsenal. And it is all but certain that the invention of the electrical generator preceded that of the electrical motor.

Emil Bollenbach had invented a better way to generate electricity by 738 BC. His generator, like Mordenheim's before it, seems to have been invented as a byproduct of his work. Bollenbach needed a source of electricity for the animation of a flesh golem. He had a windmill. And the result was a generator built around the windmill shaft, converting kinetic energy to electrical energy in significant quantities. It is not known whether Bollenbach arrived at his machine independent of knowledge of the machine's of Mordenheim.

Curiously, even less seems to have come of Bollenbach's work in the field of electricity than that of Mordenheim. At least Mordenheim has been able to sell his invention to alienists. The generators that Bollenbach build sit rusting at the bases of a pair of windmills.