Frederick Dalzell
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262042567
- eISBN:
- 9780262258708
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262042567.003.0002
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Innovation
This chapter examines the motivations and inspirations behind Frank Sprague's inventions. It provides information on Sprague's family and educational background, and highlights the influence of the ...
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This chapter examines the motivations and inspirations behind Frank Sprague's inventions. It provides information on Sprague's family and educational background, and highlights the influence of the Hoosac Tunnel project and the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia on his path to electrical invention as a career and a life's work. The chapter discusses Sprague's apprenticeship with Thomas Edison's company, which provided him opportunities to exercise both his academic training and his engineering skills, and his admission of his desire for the acclaim of heroic invention.Less
This chapter examines the motivations and inspirations behind Frank Sprague's inventions. It provides information on Sprague's family and educational background, and highlights the influence of the Hoosac Tunnel project and the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia on his path to electrical invention as a career and a life's work. The chapter discusses Sprague's apprenticeship with Thomas Edison's company, which provided him opportunities to exercise both his academic training and his engineering skills, and his admission of his desire for the acclaim of heroic invention.
