7 th February 2008
Inventors & Inventions
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Acheson worked for Edison at Menlo Park and contributed to the research that went into carbon as a filament of the earliest electric light-bulbs. He was sent by Edison to work in England, France and other parts of Europe and built generating equipment. In an attempt to produce diamonds by the use of large electric currents he noticed a residue of hexagonal crystals resulting from an experiment he had undertaken – this was the very
In 1894 Acheson started the Carborundum Company in Monongahela City, Pennsylvania, to produce grinding wheels, whet stones, knife sharpeners, and powdered abrasives