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Thomson (ELIHU an American electrician)

ELIHU, an American electrician; born in Manchester, England, March 29, 1853; came to the United States; was graduated at the Central High School of Philadelphia in 1870, and taught there as professor of chemistry and mechanics in 1870-1880. In the latter year he resigned to enter the Thomson-Houston and General Electric Companies. Subsequently he secured Cyc. Vol. IX THOMSON more than 500 patents for inventions which included the Thomson method of electric welding. He was awarded the Grand Prix, in Paris, in 1899 and 1900, for electrical inventions, received the decoration of Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, for electrical research, etc.; was a trustee of the Peabody Academy of Science in Salem, Mass., a member of ELIHU THOMSON the Corporation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, Mass.; and a member of many American and foreign electrical engineering and scientific societies. President International Electrical Congress, St. Louis, 1904.

President Electro-technical Commission, succeeding Lord Kelvin in 1909. First THOMSON 1888 1st vice-president, and on Feb. 3, 1897, elected president of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. He died in Merion, Pa., June 5, 1899.