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EDWARD ACHESON

Edward Goodrich Acheson was an American chemist and inventor. He was born in 1856 at Washington, Pennsylvania, and died in 1931. From 1880 to 1881 he did research on electric lamps as an assistant to Thomas Edison. After 1884 he worked independently to develop the electric furnace for the conversion of carbon into diamonds, without success. In 1891 he invented carborundum (silicon carbide) and artificially prepared graphite.
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