Harold P. Brown
American inventor (1869-1932) · United States · On the map · Scientists · Lived 1857 to 1944 · aged 86
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.
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The myriad of telephone, telegraph, and AC power lines over the streets of New York City in the Great Blizzard of 1888. A boy killed by a shorted AC line caused by this storm was one of the cases cited by Brown.
Harold Brown's December 1888 demonstration of the killing power of AC at Thomas Edison's West Orange laboratory (as depicted in Scientific American).About this person
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Scientists
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Scientist
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Deceased
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Lived 1857 to 1944 · aged 86
