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William D. Coolidge

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Personal details and public facts.

Profession
Engineer
Died
Feb 3, 1975
Zodiac
Scorpio
Born in
Massachusetts
About
His improvement on the tungsten filaments helped create the modern light bulbs and the first X-ray tube. He was the Director of the Research Laboratory at General Electric, where he developed ductile tungsten, replacing carbon in light bulbs.
Family
He had two children with his wife Ethel Westcott Woodard.

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