The Charles F. Brush, Sr., Papers 1842-1967 1869-1929.

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The Charles F. Brush, Sr., Papers 1842-1967 1869-1929.

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The papers of Charles F. Brush, Sr., prominent Cleveland, Ohio inventor, scientist, entrepreneur and philanthropist most noted for his invention of the arc light system.

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Case Western Reserve University, Case Western RSV University

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Brush Electric Company

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Brush, Charles Francis, 1849-1929

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Graduated from the University of Michigan in 1869 and returned to Cleveland as a mining engineer. Worked as an analytical chemist (1870-1873) and then began to experiment with electricity. By 1877 he devoted all his time to the study of electricity and developed the Brush electric dynamo and the Bursh Electric Arc Light. In 1880 he founded the Brush electric company. He was active in philanthropy and endowed the controversial "Brush Foundation" for the study of Eugenics, when, within a week, he ...

Brush Foundation

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The Brush Foundation was created in 1928 by Cleveland inventor Charles F. Brush (1849-1929) to promote "research in the field of eugenics and in the regulation of the increase of population." His initial bequest of $500,000 to establish the foundation derived from the fortune that Brush had amassed through investments and his many patents, most importantly the arc light. The foundation was intended as a memorial to his son, Charles F. Brush, Jr., who had died at the age of thirty-fo...