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BY the death of Elihu Thomson on March 13, the world has lost one of the greatest of the pioneers of the practical applications of electricity. He was born in Manchester, England, on March 29, 1853, but his father, who was a skilled mechanic, emigrated to Philadelphia, Pa., in 1858. He was educated there and attended the Central High School, a well-known technical college. His love for experimenting and invention was probably inherited from his father. At first his chief interest lay in chemistry; after he had served his time as an analyst at a factory he returned to the High School to teach chemistry and retained this post for ten years until 1880.
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R., A. Dr. Elihu Thomson. Nature 139, 617–618 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139617b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/139617b0