Acheson in A Sentence

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    Acheson, in 1896, patented an application of his, carborundum process to graphite manufacture, and in 1899 the International Acheson Graphite Co.

    2

    In the process of testing his own conclusions, McNay challenges the widely accepted view that Acheson was a foreign policy realist.

    3

    Many of the furnaces now in constant use depend mainly on this principle, a core of granular carbon fragments stamped together in the direct line between the electrodes, as in Acheson's carborundum furnace, being substituted for the carbon pencils.