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Norman P. Goss (February 4, 1902 – October 28, 1977) was an inventor and researcher from Norman P. Goss, Electrical sheet and method and apparatus for its manufacture and test, US Patent 1,965,559
/ref> to obtain so-called grain-oriented electrical steel, which has highly anisotropic magnetic properties. This special "grain-oriented" structure was named after its inventor and it is referred to as the "GOSS structure". Grain-oriented electrical steel enabled the development of highly efficient
Norman P. Goss (February 4, 1902 – October 28, 1977) was an inventor and researcher from Cleveland
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, Ohio
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, United States.
He graduated from Case Institute of Technology
Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) is a Private university, private research university in Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio. Case Western Reserve was established in 1967, when Western Reserve University, founded in 1826 and named for its location i ...
in 1925. He made significant contributions to the field of metals research, and in 1935 he published a paper and patented a method/ref> to obtain so-called grain-oriented electrical steel, which has highly anisotropic magnetic properties. This special "grain-oriented" structure was named after its inventor and it is referred to as the "GOSS structure". Grain-oriented electrical steel enabled the development of highly efficient
electrical machines
In electrical engineering, electric machine is a general term for machines using electromagnetic forces, such as electric motors, electric generators, and others. They are electromechanical energy converters: an electric motor converts electricity ...
, especially transformer
A transformer is a passive component that transfers electrical energy from one electrical circuit to another circuit, or multiple circuits. A varying current in any coil of the transformer produces a varying magnetic flux in the transformer' ...
s. Today, the magnetic cores of all high-voltage high-power transformers are made of grain-oriented electrical steel.
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