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CHARLES FRANCIS BRUSH, one of America's prominent men in the development of electrical science, was born March
17, 1849, near Cleveland, Ohio, and spent his early life on his father's farm. From the district school at Wickliffe,
Ohio, he passed to the Shaw Academy at Collamer, :and then entered the high school at Cleveland. His interest in
chemistry, physics and engineering was already marked, and during his senior year he was placed in charge of the
chemical and physical appar:atus. During these years he devised a plan for lighting street lamps, constructed telescopes,
and his first electric arc lamp, also an electric motor. In September, 1867, he entered the engineering department
of the University of Michigan and graduated in 1869, which was a year in advance of his class, with the degree
of M. E. He then returned to Cleveland, and for three years was engaged as an analytical chemist and for four years
in the iron business. In 1875 Mr. Brush became interested in electric lighting, and in 1876, after four months'
experimenting, he completed the dynamoelectric machine that has made his name famous, and in a shorter time produced
the series arc lamps. These were both patented in the United States in 1876, and he afterward obtained fifty patents
on his later inventions, including the fundamental storage battery, the compound series, shunt winding for dynamo
electric machines, and the automatic cut out for arc lamps. His patents, two thirds of which have already been
profitable, are held by the Brush Electric Company, of Cleveland, while his foreign patents are controlled by the
AngloAmerican Brush Electric Light Company, of London. In 1880 the Western Reserve University conferred upon Mr.
Brush the degree of Ph. D., and in 1881 the French govern ment decorated him as a chevalier of the Legion of Honor.
FROM:
A Biographical Record
Of Schuyler County, New York
The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
New York and Chicago 1903.
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