Men of Ability and Genius in the Electric Lighting Field

In the portrait gallery presented in this issue of the Review will be seen the faces of three men whose names are imperishable in the records of electrical invention. These names are Edison, Thomson and Brush. The first the most versatile of inventors, the other two possessing the inventive quality in a very large degree and at all times careful and clean cut in their work, so that when it was presented to the public for adoption or rejection it immediately found an abiding place in the industrial progress of the time.

It is nothing to the discredit of these three gentlemen that, while they have worked so earnestly and triumphantly, they have been appreciated in a commercial way, and a comfortable fortune belongs to each.

Our picture gallery also contains the countenances of Nikola Tesla, the brilliant young inventor; of Mr. J. J. Wood, one of the earliest workers in arc lighting, and whose dynamo machine ranks among the very first in the field; Mr. R. T. McDonald, one of the most energetic and successful of electric light manufacturers and organizers.

There are many other names identified with the wonderful development, both technical and commercial, that has brought the electrical industry so rapidly to the front. The list of names identified with the electric lighting and electric power industry is a long one. It should include Charles A. Coffin, of Boston, and his associates, E. L. Garfield, S. A. Barton and others; George Westinghouse, Jr., of Pittsburgh; Edward Weston, Edward H. Johnson, Frank J. Sprague, S. Insull and Stephen D. Field, of New York; W. Stanley, Jr., Pittsfield, Mass.; O. Shallenberger, of Pittsburgh; M. M. M. Slattery, of Fort Wayne; Capt. Eugene Griffin and O. T. Crosby, of Boston; Charles E. Dustin, of Hartford, Conn.; Prof. William A. Anthony, of Manchester, Conn.; Frank A. Perret, S. S. Wheeler, and scores of other bright and enthusiastic young and active men, who, one and all, add their share to advancing the interests of the electrical industry, and particularly the branch devoted to lighting and the transmission of power.