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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...
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  • Electric. The company began as the American Electric Company, founded by Elihu Thomson and Edwin Houston. In 1882, Charles Albert Coffin led a group of investors—largely...
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    Swampscott Town Hall, previously the Elihu Thomson House, is a historic building in Swampscott, Massachusetts. The house was designed by architect James...
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    The Elihu Thomson motor is the original repulsion motor and is described in "Construction" above. The Deri motor is similar to the Elihu Thomson type...
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  • Elihu is a masculine given name. Bearers of the name include: Elihu Abrahams (1927–2018), American theoretical physicist Elihu Anthony (1818–1905), American...
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  • business Thomson-Houston Electric Company by Elihu Thomson and Edwin Houston in 1879. On 15 April 1892, the Thomson-Houston Electric Company merged with its...
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  • January 2024. Thomson was named after the electrical engineer Elihu Thomson, who was born in Manchester, England, on 26 March 1853. Thomson moved to Philadelphia...
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    commission also contacted electrical experts, including Thomson-Houston Electric Company's Elihu Thomson (who recommended high voltage AC connected to the head...
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  • Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. pp. 34–35. ISBN 9789814484688. "Elihu Thomson Papers, 1853-1955". Smithsonian Institution. July 23, 2014. Retrieved...
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    values greater than $5 million and in some cases upwards of $10 million. Elihu Thomson House: 1889 built home, now serves as Swampscott Town Hall John Humphreys...
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    139–140. Carlson, W. Bernard (2003). Innovation as a Social Process: Elihu Thomson and the Rise of General Electric. Cambridge University Press. p. 285...
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    photography have been ranked in importance with those of Thomas A. Edison, Elihu Thomson, and William J. Morton. Rollins, although a practicing dentist, also...
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  • James G. Fujimoto is Elihu Thomson Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a visiting...
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    Social Process: Elihu Thomson and the Rise of General Electric. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-39317-5. Woodbury, David O. Elihu Thomson, Beloved Scientist...
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    IEEE Milestones as a historic achievement in electrical engineering. Elihu Thomson discovered that a carbon arc shunted with a series tuned circuit would...
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    # (1907) Richard Cockburn Maclaurin (1909) Elihu Thomson # (1920) Ernest Fox Nichols (1921) Elihu Thomson # (1922) Samuel Wesley Stratton (1923) Karl...
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    early electric industry, specifically in 1883 with Elihu Thomson, Edwin J. Houston, and their Thomson-Houston Electric Company. That company merged with...
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    # (1907) Richard Cockburn Maclaurin (1909) Elihu Thomson # (1920) Ernest Fox Nichols (1921) Elihu Thomson # (1922) Samuel Wesley Stratton (1923) Karl...
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  • experimenters including Elihu Thomson at Thomas Edison's lab, William J. Morton, and Nikola Tesla also reported burns. Elihu Thomson deliberately exposed...
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    experimenters including Elihu Thomson at Edison's lab, William J. Morton, and Nikola Tesla also reported burns. Elihu Thomson deliberately exposed a finger...
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    the same principle as Bláthy's original invention. Also around 1889, Elihu Thomson of the American General Electric company developed a recording watt...
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    With the engineering work of Elihu Thomson and Edwin J. Houston, Coffin was able to build up the company, renamed Thomson-Houston Electric Company, to...
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    currents was “furnished by the machine itself.” In 1886, English engineer Elihu Thomson built an AC motor by expanding upon the induction-repulsion principle...
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  • medal as its highest award. The first medal was presented in 1909 to Elihu Thomson. Other recipients of the Edison Medal include George Westinghouse, Alexander...
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  • 2014. The firm began as Compagnie Française Thomson-Houston (CFTH), established in 1893. In 1968 Thomson-Brandt (a renamed CFTH) merged its electronics...
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  • # (1907) Richard Cockburn Maclaurin (1909) Elihu Thomson # (1920) Ernest Fox Nichols (1921) Elihu Thomson # (1922) Samuel Wesley Stratton (1923) Karl...
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    caused energy losses due to eddy currents and hysteresis. Tesla and Elihu Thomson independently developed a new type of transformer without an iron core...
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    capacitor discharge gave rise to interference phenomena. Professors Elihu Thomson and E. J. Houston in 1876 made a number of experiments and observations...
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  • Christine Thomson, professor emerita of human nutrition Donald Thomson (1901–1970), Australian anthropologist and ornithologist Elihu Thomson (1853–1937)...
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  • discoveries regarding electromagnetic propulsion was in 1889 when Professor Elihu Thomson made public his work with electromagnetic waves and alternating currents...
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