Inventors
Edward
Goodrich Acheson - Carborundum
Edward Goodrich Acheson
patented a method of making an abrasive he named Carborundum - U.S. Patents #492,767
and #615,648.
By Mary
Bellis
On February 28, 1893, Edward Goodrich Acheson
(1856–1931) patented a method for making an industrial abrasive he called "Carborundum"
or silicon carbide. On May 19, 1896, Edward Goodrich Acheson was also issued a
patent for an electrical furnace used to produce carborundum. The United States Patent Office named carborundum as one of the 22 patents
most responsible for the industrial age (1926). According to the National
Inventors Hall of Fame, "without carborundum, the mass production
manufacturing of precision-ground, interchangeable metal parts would be
practically impossible."
Acheson went on to discover that when
carborundum was heated to a high temperature it produced an almost pure
and perfected form of graphite that could be used as a lubricant. He patented
his graphite-making process in 1896.
During
his lifetime, Edward Goodrich Acheson was granted 70 patents for industrial abrasives,
several graphite products, processes for the reduction of oxides, and refractories.
Earlier in Acheson's career, the inventor had worked for Thomas A. Edison. In 1880,
Acheson helped in the development of the incandescent
lamp at Edison's laboratories at Menlo Park, N.J.
Chemical
Achievers - Edward Goodrich Acheson and Carborundum
Edward Goodrich Acheson was raised in the coal fields of southwestern
Pennsylvania. Edward Goodrich Acheson
Edward Goodrich Acheson was granted 70 patents on devices, techniques, and
compositions of matter in the fields of mechanics, electricity,
electrochemistry, and colloid chemistry. Edward
Goodrich Acheson
Edward Goodrich Acheson invented
Carborundum, the hardest man-made surface needed to bring about the industrial
age. Edward
Goodrich Acheson
Edward Goodrich Acheson was
American inventor who discovered the abrasive Carborundum and perfected a method
for making graphite. Acheson was key in successfully establishing at least five
industrial corporations dependent on electrothermal processes.
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