# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/harold-p-brown
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:47:36.665Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/harold-p-brown"
name: "Harold P. Brown"
slug: "harold-p-brown"
description: "Harold Pitney Brown was an American electrical engineer and inventor known for his activism in the late 1880s against the use of alternating current (AC) for electric lighting in New York City and around the country."
tagline: "American inventor (1869-1932)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Harold_Pitney_Brown_engineer_1857_1932.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1857-09-16"
deathDate: "1944-05-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.75438596491228
  historical:           9.825848
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Harold P. Brown"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump