Francis Robbins Upton

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Francis Robbins Upton (1852 in Peabody, Massachusetts – March 10th 1921 in Orange, New York) was an US-American physicist and mathematician.

Biography

Upton grew up in Massachusetts. He studied at the Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, at Princeton University and in Berlin, where he worked together with Hermann von Helmholtz. Was one of the first people ever got a degree from Princeton, in 1877 he received his Master of Science there.

In 1878 he joined into the laboraties of Thomas Alva Edison in Menlo Park, New Jersey. There he dealt with technical problems in a mathematical way, including the electric bulk light, the Watt hour meter, and large dynamos. In October 1879 the first electric light was presented to the public. He was partner and general manager of the Edinson Lamp Works, which he founded together with Edison in 1880. 1892 wurde das Unternehmen von General Electric übernommen.

Upton published inventions and his knownledge e.g. in the Scribner's Monthly and the Scientific American.

Since 1958 the Princeton University has the Francis Upton Graduate Fellowships.

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