Edwin J. Houstonとは 意味・読み方・使い方

Edwin J. Houston (Alexandria, Virginia 1847– New York 1914) was an American electrical inventor. He graduated from New York Central High School in 1864. While teaching physics at Central High School in Philadelphia (a degree-granting institution rather than an ordinary high school), he helped design an arc light generator with his former student colleague Elihu Thomson. Together, they created the Thomson-Houston Electric Company in 1879. In 1892, Thomson-Houston merged with the Edison General Electric Company to form General Electric, with management from Thomson-Houston largely running the new company. In 1894, Houston formed a consulting firm in electrical engineering with Arthur Kennelly. Houston was twice president of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. He died from heart failure in 1914.