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Hewitt was born in New York City, the son of New York City Mayor Abram Hewitt and the grandson of industrialist Peter Cooper. He was educated at the Stevens Institute of Technology and the Columbia University School of Mines .
Aug 21, 2024 · Peter Cooper Hewitt (born May 5, 1861, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Aug. 25, 1921, Paris, France) was an American electrical engineer who invented the mercury-vapour lamp, a great advance in electrical lighting.
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Electrical inventor Peter Cooper Hewitt built on the mid-19th century work of German physicist Julius Plücher and glassblower Heinrich Geissler. By passing an electric current through a glass tube containing tiny amounts of a gas, Plücker and Geissler found they could make light.
Peter Cooper Hewitt. 1861-1921. American electrical engineer who invented the mercury-vapor lamp. Between 1901-03 he made his mercury-vapor lamp commercially available as a reliable form of industrial lighting. His quartz-tube mercury lamp was widely used in the biological sciences.
Born March 5, 1861 - Died Aug. 25, 1921. Peter Cooper Hewitt patented the mercury vapor lamp which was widely used for street and outdoor lighting. A graduate of Columbia University, he was experimenting with electric conductivity and was able to prove that a gas can conduct an electrical charge.
Peter Cooper Hewitt, inventor and scientist, was born on March 5, 1861 in New York City to Abram and Sarah Hewitt. Peter inherited much of his grandfather's genius for mechanics.
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Hewitt was born in New York City, the son of New York City Mayor Abram Hewitt and the grandson of industrialist Peter Cooper. He was educated at the Stevens Institute of Technology and the Columbia University School of Mines.
