Scientist, Inventor. A pioneer in the field of electricity, he designed and installed the first Three Phase generators in industrial plants in America. Editor of The Electrical World, Professor of Physics, Purdue University, and a Chief Engineer, General Electric Company. A leading lecturer on the field of electricity at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Johns Hopkins and Harvard Universities. A Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences. President Illuminating Engineering Society. Vice President British Illuminating Engineering Society. Member, International Commission on Illumination. During World War I he served on the Advisory Committee of Council of National Defense. Author of: The Electric Railway (1892), Power Transmission for Electric Railways (1896), Electric Power Transmission (1899), The Art of Illumination (1902), The Telescope (1922).
Scientist, Inventor. A pioneer in the field of electricity, he designed and installed the first Three Phase generators in industrial plants in America. Editor of The Electrical World, Professor of Physics, Purdue University, and a Chief Engineer, General Electric Company. A leading lecturer on the field of electricity at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Johns Hopkins and Harvard Universities. A Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences. President Illuminating Engineering Society. Vice President British Illuminating Engineering Society. Member, International Commission on Illumination. During World War I he served on the Advisory Committee of Council of National Defense. Author of: The Electric Railway (1892), Power Transmission for Electric Railways (1896), Electric Power Transmission (1899), The Art of Illumination (1902), The Telescope (1922).
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