Hypernyms (chemoreceptor is a kind of...): receptor; sense organ; sensory receptor (an organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation). Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of chemoreceptor):
Who invented hydro-electric power? Lester Allan Pelton was an American inventor who created an efficient form of impulse water turbine in 1878 in the goldfields.    In 1887 a miner attached Pelton's wheeâ¦l to a dynamo and produced the first hydroelectric power in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
The Professor Answers: Probably the first turbine to use water was designed by an American mining engineer Lester Pelton. The Pelton wheel had pairs of buckets stopping the water, turning a turbine and is connected to a generator. The first hydroelectric power station was built in 1882.