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.
In what is considered the first industrial use of alternating current in 1891, workmen pose with a Westinghouse alternator at the Ames Hydroelectric Generating Plant. This alternator was used as a generator producing 3000 volt, 133 hertz, single-phase AC, and an identical one 3 miles away was used as an AC motor.