Papers, 1869-1929.

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Papers, 1869-1929.

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Family, personal, business, and scientific correspondence, diaries, laboratory notebooks, mss. of patent specifications, fiscal and other business records of the Brush Electric Company, newspaper clippings, and photos. Includes C. B. Sawyer's collection relating to Brush's work and life and assembled after his death. Correspondents include E. D. Campbell, W. S. Culver, Francis X. Dercum, H. C. Dickinson, R. D. Fay, Henry Ford, A. W. Goodspeed, C. A. Graselli, Sir Robert Hadfield, E. A. Harrington, C. S. Howe, E. P. Hyde, Zay Jeffries, W. W. Keen, J. W. Langley, T. C. Mendenhall, Dayton C. Miller, Robert A. Millikan, John Millis, Charles L. Norton, F. W. Rice, Elmer A. Sperry, Elihu Thomson, W. R. Warner, W. R. Whitney, and P. W. Wold.

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American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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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 ...

Millikan, Robert Andrews, 1868-1953

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Physicist (photoelectricity, ions) and educator. On the physics faculty at the University of Chicago, 1896-1921; on the faculty at California Institute of Technology: director, Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics and chairman of the Executive Council, 1921-1946, emeritus professor of physics and chairman of the Board of Trustees from 1946; Nobel Prize in physics, 1923. From the description of Papers [microform], 1847-1953. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77594601 Millikan was...