Thomson, Elihu
electrician, inventor, was born March 29, 1853, in England. In 1876 he became professor of chemistry and physics. To aid in the delivery of lectures at the Franklin institute in 1876- 77, he made a practical dynamo and invented a number of ingenious machines, and, in 1878-79, obtained several patents for electric lighting apparatus.
THOMSON, FREDERICK BORDINE, missionary, author, was born Nov. 5, 1809, in New Brunswick, N. J. He published a Dyak Hymn-Book, the first printed book in that language; and Brown's Catechism in Dyak; and translated into the same tongue the Gospel of St. Matthew and the first twenty chapters of Genesis. He left an unfinished work on The Economy of Missions. He died March 3, 1847, in Switzerland.