Hideyuki Kikuchi

ID: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-4793]

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Form/Genre: Black-and-white photographs

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Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2008-4793

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Summary

Mr. Hideyuki Kikuchi, Japanese physicist who in 1940, with Mitsutoshi Hirose, received a U.S. patent for invention of apparatus employing high voltage high frequency electric current. The photo caption (c. 1935) states that the invention turned "iron-sand into 99.7% pure iron in less than five minutes, by use of high-tension, high-cycle, electro-magnetic-wave smelting process."

Subject

Kikuchi, Hideyuki

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Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2008-4793

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Smithsonian Institution Archives Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520

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Topic

  • Electrical engineering
  • Inventors
  • Physics

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Black-and-white photographs

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SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-4793]

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Photographic prints

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