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Edwin J. HoustonBorn 9 Jul 1847; died 1 Mar 1914 at age 66.Edwin James Houston was an American electrical engineer who, together with Elihu Thomson (another Philadelphia high school teacher)experimented with electricity. Houston invented, patented in 1881 and manufactured arc street-lighting. He presented the first paper, Notes on Phenomena in Incandescent Lamps, to The American Institute of Electrical Engineers when it began in 1884 (AIEE - the predecessor society of the present IEEE, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.). The merger of Thomson-Houston and Edison General Electric companies (1892) formed General Electric. In 1894 he joined with Arthur Kennelly (who resigned from Edison's laboratory) to form a consulting company. |
