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Article: Weld Saunders Carter, personal mathematician to Thomas Edison
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 20, 1989
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Weld Saunders Carter, 88, once personal mathematician to Thomas
Alva Edison, died Feb. 4 at Northern Illinois Medical Center in
McHenry after a brief illness.
Mr. Carter, of Fox Lake, was born in East Orange, N.J. When
finances forced him to withdraw from Princeton University in his
junior year, Mr. Carter entered a competitive examination and was
awarded the position of personal mathematician to Edison at his famed
East Orange laboratory.
In the 1 1/2 years that he worked for Edison, Mr. Carter
contributed to the development of such inventions as the alkaline
storage cell, cylinder and disc type of phonographs.
He cherished an autographed photograph from Edison, which ...