Company: Brush Wellman Inc
City: Cleveland
Country: USA
url: http://www.brushwellman.com
In 1879, while Thomas Edison was struggling with his own incandescent globe, Charles F Brush was flipping the switch to his first commercial set of electric arc lights in Cleveland's Public Square which remained in service for 15 years.
"Brush lights", as they came to be known, soon were lighting up city streets throughout the world, earning the young inventor fame first and wealth soon thereafter as the president of Brush Electric Co.
As the holder of more than 100 patents, the founder of Brush Electric and later Brush Laboratories still tops an inventors' hall of fame list displayed at the University of Michigan, where he obtained his bachelor's and master's degrees. Brush also held an honorary Ph.D from Case Western Reserve University.
