Edward Goodrich Acheson papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 13000
Subjects: Correspondence; Carborundum Company (Niagara Falls, N.Y.); Cowles Electric Smelting and Aluminum Company; Electrochemistry; Bakewell & Bakewell; Inventions; Chemistry; Electrochemical Society
Description: Correspondence, diaries, laboratory notebooks relating to his various experiments and inventions, biographical material, financial records, newspaper clippings, and other papers relating to Acheson's career as an electrochemist, engineer, and inventor as well as to his companies.  Includes a typescript of his autobiography entitled A Pathfinder: Discovery, Invention and Industry (1910), two volumes of court proceedings concerning a case in which Acheson's Carborundum Company was involved in 1894, and research materials of his biographer, Raymond Szymanowitz.  Correspondents include John P. Deringer, Thomas A. Edison, Alfred E. Hunt, John Seys Huyler, Andrew W. Mellon, E.L. Nichols, Walther Rathenau, William Acheson Smith, and Edmund C. Sprague; Acheson's sons, Edward Acheson (1887-1962), George Wilson Acheson, John Huyler Acheson, and Raymond Mahler Acheson; and organizations including Bakewell & Bakewell, Cowles Electric Smelting and Aluminum Company, and the Electrochemical Society.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Howard A. Acheson and Margaret A. Stuart, 1972.

Gift, Raymond Szymanowitz, 1972.

Electrochemist, engineer, and inventor.

Collection material in English.

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