Arthur Edwin Kennelly (December 17, 1861 - June 18, 1939), was an Indian-American electrical engineer.
Kennelly was born in Colaba, in South Mumbai, India and was educated at University College School in London. He was the son of an Irish naval officer Captain David Joseph Kennelly (1831-1907) and Catherine Gibson Heycock (1839-1863). His mother died when he was three years old. Afterwards, in 1863, his father retired from the navy and later Arth...
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Arthur Edwin Kennelly (December 17, 1861 - June 18, 1939), was an Indian-American electrical engineer.
Kennelly was born in Colaba, in South Mumbai, India and was educated at University College School in London. He was the son of an Irish naval officer Captain David Joseph Kennelly (1831-1907) and Catherine Gibson Heycock (1839-1863). His mother died when he was three years old. Afterwards, in 1863, his father retired from the navy and later Arthur and his father returned to England. In 1878, his father remarried to Ellen L.Spencer and moved the family to Sydney, Nova Scotia on the island of Cape Breton when he took over the Sydney and Louisbourg Coal and Railway Company Limited. By his father's third marriage, Arthur gained four half siblings, Zaida Kennelly in 1881, David J.Kennelly, Jr. in 1882, Nell K.Kennelly in 1883 and Spencer M.Kennelly in 1885.
Joined Thomas Edison's West Orange laboratory in Dec 1887, staying until March 1894. While there Harold Brown and he developed an...
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