Galileo Ferraris (31 October 1847 – 7 February 1897) was an Italian
physicist and
electrical engineer, one of the pioneers of
AC power system and the inventor of
induction motor. Many newspapers published that Ferraris's work on the induction motor and power transmission systems was one of the greatest inventions of any age. He published an extensive and complete monograph on the experimental results obtained with open-circuit transformers of the type designed by the
power engineers Lucien Gaulard and
John Dixon Gibbs.