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Francis Robbins Upton (1852 in Peabody, Massachusetts – March 10, 1921, in Orange, New Jersey) was an American physicist and mathematician. Upton worked alongside Thomas Edison in the development of incandescent light bulbs , electric generators , and electric power distribution .
Upton attended a business college after she finished high school. [citation needed]Her father, Francis, was a decorated New York City detective sergeant and World War I veteran., [3] [4] [5] formerly of the Italian Squad, and recalled from retirement, to help investigate, apprehended "Dago" Frank Cirofici, among the accomplices of NYPD Lieutenant Charles Becker in the 1912 murder of bookmaker ...
The first automatic electric fire alarm was co-invented in 1890 by Francis Robbins Upton and Fernando J. Dibble. Upton and Dibble were issued U.S. patent #436,961. Upton was an associate of Thomas Alva Edison, although there is no evidence that Edison contributed to this invention. [18] 1891 Incandescent lamp
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Francis Robbins Upton; Fred Upton; K. Kate Upton; L. Louis Upton; V. Justin Verlander This page was last edited on 13 October 2023, at 01:23 (UTC). Text is ...
Alton Harrell, Francis Buckheit, Daniel Burke, Elizabeth Hunter, Jacquelyn Comiskey, Robert Eccleston, Bunice Knight, Kevin McDonald and Ralph Knowles, were arraigned Thursday in connection to the ...
Former Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) — one of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach former President Trump in 2021 — formally endorsed Vice President Harris’s bid for president on Thursday.
The first automatic electric fire alarm was patented in 1890 by Francis Robbins Upton, [2] an associate of Thomas Edison. [3] In 1902, George Andrew Darby patented the first European electrical heat detector in Birmingham, England. [4] [5] In the late 1930s, Swiss physicist Walter Jaeger attempted to invent a sensor for poison gas. [6]