Edward Goodrich Acheson

Edward Goodrich Acheson (March 9, 1856 – July 6, 1931) is an American chemist.

Born in Washington, Pennsylvania, he is the inventor of the Acheson process, which is still used to make silicon carbide (carborundum) and later a manufacturer of carborundum and graphite.

Thomas Edison had put him to work on September 12, 1880 at his Menlo Park, New Jersey laboratory under John Kruesi.

Acheson experiments on making a conducting carbon that Edison could use in his electric light bulbs.

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