1. Marvin Pipkin was an American chemist, engineer, and scientist.
35 Facts About Marvin Pipkin
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Marvin Pipkin went on to make many other inventions and further improvements to the light bulb.
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Marvin Pipkin's patents were developed into General Electric's popular Soft-White bulb series that were mass-produced.
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The fourth of six children, Marvin Pipkin was born November 18,1889, south of Lakeland, Florida in a suburban community called Christina.
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Marvin Pipkin's parents were Daniel M Pipkin and Sarah Catherine Pipkin.
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Marvin Pipkin's father owned a citrus grove and was a farmer.
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Marvin Pipkin attended Lakeland elementary school and graduated from Bartow High School in Bartow, Florida.
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Marvin Pipkin decided that he had to attend college in order to expand the ideas he had on certain chemistry theories.
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Marvin Pipkin attended Auburn University, at that time known as Alabama Polytechnic Institute, graduating with a degree in chemical engineering in 1913.
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Marvin Pipkin then worked for a year in a fertilizer laboratory, after which he returned to API, where he gained his master's degree in 1915.
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Marvin Pipkin then attended Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, where he graduated with a doctorate in chemistry.
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Marvin Pipkin enlisted in the Army in Jacksonville, Florida, on November 5,1917.
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Marvin Pipkin was promoted to the rank of a senior grade master engineer.
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Marvin Pipkin remained at Nela Park as a research scientist after the war.
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Marvin Pipkin worked in General Electric's light bulb development department.
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Marvin Pipkin retired from the General Electric Nela Park laboratory in November 1954.
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Marvin Pipkin settled at his home on Beacon Road in Lakeland, Florida.
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Marvin Pipkin had lived in the town most of his life.
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Marvin Pipkin died of cancer at the General Hospital in Lakeland on January 7,1977, at the age of 87.
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Marvin Pipkin is buried at the Fitzgerald Cemetery in Lakeland.
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At General Electric, Marvin Pipkin produced an innovative acid etching process for the inside of the globe of an electric lamp so that it did not deteriorate the lamp glass globe.
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Marvin Pipkin's was a two step acid process that etched the interior of glass with tiny crevasses on the first process like in the normal procedure, but he added a second acid step that caused soft, rounded dimples from the crevasses which gave the bulbs added strength.
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Marvin Pipkin was surprised to find that the bulb glass had somehow become much stronger.
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Marvin Pipkin did a demonstration of the bulbs' integrity to his supervisor at General Electric.
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Marvin Pipkin presented to his supervisor six light bulbs that had been frosted on the inside.
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Marvin Pipkin placed the bulbs on his supervisor's desk, standing up on their screw bottoms.
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Marvin Pipkin tipped the first three over, one at a time, to simulate a bulb being dropped from a small height.
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Marvin Pipkin then tipped over the remaining three bulbs, which were tempered with his new two-step acid treatment.
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Marvin Pipkin went on to make many innovations to the light bulb and two decades later developed the soft white light bulb.
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Marvin Pipkin is credited with perfecting the photo flash bulb with several patents.
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Besides the frosted light bulb, Marvin Pipkin invented or improved many other products during his career with General Electric.
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Marvin Pipkin's innovations were noted in articles in Time, Newsweek, and the Saturday Evening Post magazines, as well as in scientific journals.
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Marvin Pipkin married Kathryn Patricia Enright on July 21,1919; they had three daughters.
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Marvin Pipkin was a member of Tuscan Masonic Lodge, Knights of Pythias, and the American Chemical Society.
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Marvin Pipkin was awarded the Charles A Coffin award for his achievements in electric lamp improvements.