Edward Goodrich Acheson

Edward Goodrich Acheson (March 9, 1856 – July 6, 1931) was an American chemist. Born in Washington, Pennsylvania, he was the inventor of the Acheson process, which is still used to make Silicon carbide (carborundum) and later a manufacturer of carborundum and graphite. Thomas Edison put him to work on September 12, 1880 at his Menlo Park, New Jersey laboratory under John Kruesi. Acheson experimented on making a conducting carbon that Edison could... More

Date of birth:

  • Mar 9, 1856

Date of death:

  • Jul 6, 1931 (age 75 years)

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Also known as:

  • Edward G. Acheson
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  • 1910

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  • Person

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  • By the end of his life, Acheson had established seventy patents, mainly in the electrothermic field, revolutionizing the machining of metals.

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  • unknown

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  • chemist
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