Willis Rodney Whitney (1868-1958),US inventor. Whitney trained as a chemist at Massachussetts Institute of Technology. Like many US students at the time,he completed his education in Germany,obtaining his PhD in 1898. He worked part-time at General Electric from 1900,eventually working there full-time after completing research in electrochemistry at MIT in 1908. By 1915 he was responsible for 250 staff,and oversaw work on inventions such as vacuum and gas-filled light bulbs,wireless telegraphy (radio) and X-ray technology. He retired in 1932. This photograph is from the Bain News Service,one of the USA's earliest news picture libraries. The photographs date from the 1890s to the 1930s | |
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