Elihu Thomson (1853 to 1937) was an English-American engineer and inventor who was instrumental in founding major electrical companies in the United States, the United Kingdom and France. Born in Manchester, England, he was taken to Philadelphia in 1858, graduated from Central High School and taught there, holding the chair of chemistry in 1876 before leaving in 1880 to research electrical engineering. With his former teacher Edwin J. Houston he founded the Thomson-Houston Electric Company, and among his inventions of that period were an arc-lighting system, an automatically regulated three-coil dynamo, a magnetic lightning arrester and a local power transformer. The company merged with the Edison General Electric Company in 1892 to become General Electric, and he kept his own laboratory at Lynn, Massachusetts. He held more than 700 patents, lectured at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1894 and served as its acting president in 1920 and 1921. He won the Edison Medal in 1909 and was second president of the International Electrotechnical Commission.
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Elihu Thomson (March 29, 1853, March 13, 1937) was an English-American engineer and inventor who was instrumental in the founding of major electrical companies in the United States, the United Kingdom and France.
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Elihu Thomson (March 29, 1853, March 13, 1937) was an English-American engineer and inventor who was instrumental in the founding of major electrical companies in the United States, the United Kingdom and France.
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He was born in Manchester, England, on March 29, 1853, but his family moved to Philadelphia in the United States in 1858.
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Elihu Thomson (March 29, 1853, March 13, 1937) was an English-American engineer and inventor who was instrumental in the founding of major electrical companies in the United States, the United Kingdom and France.
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Elihu Thomson (March 29, 1853, March 13, 1937) was an English-American engineer and inventor who was instrumental in the founding of major electrical companies in the United States, the United Kingdom and France.
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Elihu Thomson (March 29, 1853, March 13, 1937) was an English-American engineer and inventor who was instrumental in the founding of major electrical companies in the United States, the United Kingdom and France.
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Thomson began lecturing on electrical engineering at MIT in 1894, was elected a life member of its board in 1898.
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Notable inventions created by Thomson during this period include an arc-lighting system, an automatically regulated three-coil dynamo, a magnetic lightning arrester, and a local power transformer.
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Notable inventions created by Thomson during this period include an arc-lighting system, an automatically regulated three-coil dynamo, a magnetic lightning arrester, and a local power transformer.
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