Beloved Scientist: Elihu Thomson, A Guiding Spirit of the Electrical Age
by Woodbury, David O
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- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- fair
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Whittlesey House, 1944. fair. 358, illus., bibliography, index, some foxing to text, bds soiled & stained, board & spine edges worn, cloth on rear board wrinkled. Elihu Thomson (1853-1937) was a major American inventor of electric light and power systems. A contemporary of Thomas Edison, Thomson performed the engineering and design work necessary to make electric lighting a common product. Pages 237-239 discuss the application of Thomson's process for electric welding to drilling the armor plate for battleships used in the Spanish-American War. Thomson moved his family away from the New England coast during the war because he feared Spanish bombardment.
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- Bookseller
- Ground Zero Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15751
- Title
- Beloved Scientist: Elihu Thomson, A Guiding Spirit of the Electrical Age
- Author
- Woodbury, David O
- Book Condition
- Used - fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Whittlesey House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1944
- Keywords
- Elihu Thomson, Inventors, Electric Light, Electric Power, Thomas A. Edison, Engineering, Biographies, Spanish-Am War
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