Background
Free, Edward Elway was born on May 3, 1883 in Dagus Mines, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Spencer Michael (Doctor of Medicine and May Irene (Elway) F.
Free, Edward Elway was born on May 3, 1883 in Dagus Mines, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Spencer Michael (Doctor of Medicine and May Irene (Elway) F.
Graduate Bellefonte (Pennsylvania) Academy, 1902. Bachelor of Arts, Cornell Univercity, 1906. Doctor of Philisophy, Johns Hopkins, 1917.
Assistant chemist Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Arizona, 1906-1907. Physicist and scientist United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, District of Columbia, 1907-1912. Consultant chemist, and physicist, since 1912, head Electrical Engineer Free Laboratories, New New York Editor Scientific American, 1924-1925.
Owner and editor “The Week’s Science” (a news service).
Lecturer on Outlines of Science, New York University, 1926-1934.
Served as captain Ordnance Department, United States of America, 1917-1918. Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington Academy of Science, Acoustical Society America (treasurer 1930-1934).
Married Marion Allen, April.