page_title: Jonas Wenström
hierarchical_section_title: Jonas Wenström
caption_attribution_description: English: Jonas Wenström (1855–1893)
context_page_description: Jonas Wenström was a Swedish engineer and inventor. He invented the three-phase electric power system, the basis for ASEA.
  About the invention of electric light, Wenström wrote: "Edison's new invention of electric light: a glowing carbon strip, is the same thing that I discovered a year ago ... If I had his laboratory, and resources, I would have done the same and better ... a graphite strip between two mica plates provide a more effective light than Edison's."
context_section_description: Jonas Wenström (born August 4, 1855 in Hällefors, died December 22, 1893 in Västerås) was a Swedish engineer and inventor. He invented the three-phase electric power system, the basis for ASEA (later ABB). 
  About the invention of electric light, Wenström wrote: "Edison's new invention of electric light: a glowing carbon strip, is the same thing that I discovered a year ago ... If I had his laboratory, and resources, I would have done the same and better ... a graphite strip between two mica plates provide a more effective light than Edison's."
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