Comment by AtlasBarfed
13 hours ago
I'm not saying there isn't room for innovation but... Electric motors have been around for a century now already in many applications.
It's not like the Dawn of the steam engine
13 hours ago
I'm not saying there isn't room for innovation but... Electric motors have been around for a century now already in many applications.
It's not like the Dawn of the steam engine
According to wikipedia[1] the first industrial steam engine (1712) was invented almost 100 years before the invention of the steam locomotive (1804), arguably its greatest evolutionary feat.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_steam_engine
The timeline of the electric motor isn't much behind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_electric_motor.