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Charles G. Page

1812 - 1868

Charles Grafton Page (1812 – 1868) was an American inventor, physicist and and professor of chemistry. He is considered the father of the modern circuit breaker.

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"Charles Grafton Page Papers, 1844-1870," Smithsonian Institution Research Information System, http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100001~!267011!0 (accessed 04/21/2015)

"Charles Grafton Page," Appletons Encyclopedia, Copyright © 2001 Virtualology, http://famousamericans.net/charlesgraftonpage/ (accessed 04/21/2015)

"Charles Grafton Page," Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Grafton_Page (accessed 04/21/2015) [unvetted]

"A Description of Several New Electro-Magnetic and Magneto-Electric Instruments and Experiments"
"Researches in Magnetic Electricity and New Magnetic Electrical Instruments," "Notice of Some New Electrical Instruments," and "Appendix to Section on Magneto-Electric Machines"
Excerpt from The American Claim to Induction Coil and Its Electrostatic Developments

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