Charles Francis Brush

Charles Francis Brush (born March 17, 1849 in Euclid Township , † June 15, 1929 in Cleveland ) was an American inventor , entrepreneur and philanthropist .

Life

Born in Euclid Township, Ohio , Brush grew up on a farm about ten miles from Cleveland . In his youth he was very interested in science and technology, especially electric lighting . He tinkered around, built simple electrical devices and experimented in a workshop on the farm his parents ran. Brush attended Central High School in Cleveland. He received his college education at the University of Michigan , where he studied mining engineering. Brush invented a carbon arc lamp (English: arc lamp ), the existing jablotschkowschen candle was superior.

After working in various partnerships and in various fields (including iron ore sales and chemistry), Brush set out to build an electrical generator , then called a dynamo , that would provide the electricity for his carbon arc lamps.

In 1879, he founded the Anglo-American Brush Electric Light Corporation in Lambeth, London, England to acquire the patent rights to St. George Lane Fox-Pitt's incandescent lamp. This company was eventually relocated to Loughborough, England, where Brush Electrical Machines Ltd. has been. In 1880 he founded the Brush Electric Company in Cleveland, which was eventually merged into General Electric in 1891 .

In the winter of 1887/88 he built the first fully automatic wind turbine to generate electricity in Cleveland on Lake Erie . The rotor with a diameter of 15.24 m (50 ft.) And made of 144 cedar blades was the largest in the world to date. The machine delivered a maximum of 12 kW of electrical power, ran for 20 years and charged the batteries in the basement of his house. On December 20, 1890, the Scientific American magazine reported on it in detail.

Between 1910 and 1929 he wrote several articles on his version of a Le Sage-type kinetic theory of gravity based on electromagnetic waves . In 1910 he was elected to the American Philosophical Society and in 1917 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Charles F. Brush High School in Lyndhurst, Ohio is named after Brush, with various sports teams and other groups named the Arcs after Brush's invention .

Honors

1899: Rumford Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1913: AIEE Edison Medal

Web links

Commons : Charles F. Brush - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ A pioneer of wind energy: Charles F. Brush www.igwindkraft.at, 2003, accessed March 10, 2017.
^ Member History: Charles F. Brush. American Philosophical Society, accessed May 23, 2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Brush, Charles Francis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American inventor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 17, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH	Euclid Township
DATE OF DEATH	June 15, 1929
Place of death	Cleveland , Ohio

[1] A pioneer of wind energy: Charles F. Brush www.igwindkraft.at, 2003, accessed March 10, 2017.

[2] Member History: Charles F. Brush. American Philosophical Society, accessed May 23, 2018 .