Everything about Charles F Brush totally explained
Charles Francis Brush (
March 17,
1849 –
June 15,
1929) was a
U.S. inventor,
entrepreneur and
philanthropist.
Biography
Born in
Euclid Township, Ohio, Brush was raised on a farm about 10 miles from downtown
Cleveland. As a youngster, he'd a great interest in science, particularly with electrical lighting; he tinkered with and built simple electrical devices, experimenting in a workshop on his parents farm. Brush attended Central High School in Cleveland. He received his college education from the
University of Michigan, where he studied mining engineering (there were no such majors -- as there are today -- in electrical engineering). At Michigan, Brush was a member of
Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. Brush invented an
arc lamp that was superior to the existing
Yablochkov candle.
After working in various partnerships, and in different fields (including
iron ore sales and
chemistry), Brush went on to build his 'dynamo' (an
electrical generator), which became the central power system for his
arc light.
In 1879 he formed the Anglo-American Brush Electric Light Corporation in Lambeth, London, England. This company eventually moved to Loughborough England and became
Brush Electrical Machines Ltd.
In 1880, he established the
Brush Electric Company, which eventually merged to become part of
General Electric in 1891. In 1882 the Brush Electric Company supplied generating equipment for a
hydroelectric power plant at
St. Anthony Falls in
Minneapolis, which was the first to generate electricity from water power in the
United States.
Between 1910 and 1929 he wrote several papers on his version of a
kinetic theory of gravitation, based on some sort of
electromagnetic waves. He died on
June 15,
1929.
Legacy
Charles F. Brush High School in
Lyndhurst, Ohio is named after Brush, whose sports teams and other groups are named the "Arcs," after Brush's lamp.
Honors
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