# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/oliver-b-shallenberger
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:24:41.522Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/oliver-b-shallenberger"
name: "Oliver B. Shallenberger"
slug: "oliver-b-shallenberger"
description: "Oliver Blackburn Shallenberger was an American electrical engineer and inventor. He is associated with electrical inventions related to alternating current. He is most noted for inventing the first successful alternating current (AC) electrical meter, the forerunner of the modern electric meter. This was critical to general acceptance of AC power."
tagline: "American electrical engineer and inventor (1860–1898)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Oliver_Blackburn_Shallenberger.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1860-05-07"
deathDate: "1898-01-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.38
  momentum:             1.267605633802817
  historical:           7.00576
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Олівер Шелленбергер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Oliver B. Shallenberger"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_B._Shallenberger"
    title: "Oliver B. Shallenberger"
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    title: "Օլիվեր Շելլենբերգեր"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Oliver B. Shallenberger"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Shallenberger"
    title: "Oliver Shallenberger"
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    title: "Шелленбергер, Оливер"
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    title: "Oliver B. Shallenberger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump