Electrical Engineering with 360+ answers. Active power is power that does actual work - e.g: creating heat, lifting loads, etc. Reactive power is power where the current is out of phase with the voltage, and the Volts x amps doesn't do any real work. Current that charges a capacitor, for example or current that creates the magnetic field around a coil for another. Apparent power is the mathematical combination of these two.
Alfred Carlton Gilbert, Inventor of the Erector Set â Today in History: February 15. On February 15, 1884, the New Haven inventor of the Erector Set, Alfred Carlton Gilbert, was born. A magician, athlete, and savvy businessman, Gilbert enrolled in medical school at Yale in 1904 to pursue a career as a physical education director.
1891 â Jesse W. Reno invents the escalator. 1892 â Rudolf Diesel invents the diesel-fueled internal combustion engine. 1895 â Lumiere Brothers invent a portable motion-picture camera, film processing unit and projector called the Cinematographe.