St. George Lane Fox-Pitt

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Saint George William Lane Fox-Pitt (born September 14, 1856 in Malta , † April 6, 1932 in South Eaton Place) was a British electrical engineer and student of psychological phenomena.

Life

His parents were Lieutenant General Augustus Henry Lane-Fox (1827-1900) and Alice Margaret (1828-1910; nee Stanley). When his father's cousin Horace Pitt, 6th Baron Rivers, died in 1880, the family took the name Fox Pitt-Rivers on May 25, 1880 . In 1878 St. George Lane Fox-Pitt received a patent for an incandescent lamp with platinum-iridium filament, which also describes a system for power distribution.

On December 12, 1879, Charles Francis Brush founded the Anglo American Electric Light Company Ltd. in Great Britain . and in the same year acquired the patent rights for the production of the Lane-Fox incandescent lamp . On March 24, 1880, he founded a new company, Anglo-American Brush Electric Light Corporation , which took over the previous one. Around 1880 St. George Lane Fox-Pitt is said to have carried out successful experiments with charred plant fibers as a glow material. That coincided with Edison's development of the carbon filament light bulb in the USA. By 1883, St. George Lane Fox-Pitt filed a number of other patents.

St. George Lane Fox-Pitt wrote books on the philosophy of science, education, and social problems. He was temporarily vice-president of the Moral Education League and organized the International Moral Education Congress .

In 1891 he bought back his patent rights from the Anglo-American Brush Electric Light Corporation and set up a small lamp production company himself.

In 1898 he participated in a railroad concession in Ecuador .

A year later he married Lady Edith Gertrude Douglas (1874-1963; the daughter of John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lane Fox - An Illuminating Letter ( Memento of the original dated May 30, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , The Institution of Engineering and Technology, accessed December 29, 2008 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.theiet.org
  2. ↑ The New York Times online archive : Archer Harman is arrested, February 5, 1901 , accessed December 28, 2008
  3. ^ Online archive The New York Times : Ecuador Railroad Suit; Shareholders Now Bring Action Against Two Companies., June 5, 1901 , accessed December 29, 2008
  4. ↑ St. George William Lane Fox-Pitt on thepeerage.com , accessed September 18, 2016.

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personal data
SURNAME Fox-Pitt Lane, St. George
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lane Fox-Pitt, Saint George; Fox Pitt-Rivers, Saint George William; Fox-Pitt Lane, Saint George William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British electrical engineer
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Malta
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1932
Place of death South Eaton Place