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Dr Allan Reginald Cullimore

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Dr Allan Reginald Cullimore

Birth
Jacksonville, Morgan County, Illinois, USA
Death
20 Sep 1956 (aged 72)
South Orange, Essex County, New Jersey, USA
Burial
Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, USA Add to Map
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Author/Speaker/Educator. Prof. Cullimore attended the Belmont School, Belmont, Cal. and took his scientific training at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduating in 1907 with the B.S. degree. The next year he was Assistant in Civil Engineering there. Afterward he did practical work with the U. S. coast and Geodetic Survey on the Columbia River, Washington; was engaged by the American Bridge Co., at their New York office; was appointed Assistant Superintendent of Construction for the city of St. Louis, serving for two years; and he was designing Engineer for the Spuck Iron Foundry Co of St. Louis. He has been Dean of the College of Industrial Science at Toledo University, in Ohio, and for three summers taught railroad and topographical fieldwork at the summer Engineering Camps of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in easter Maine. Prof. Cullimore was a member of the Beta Theta Phi Fraternity, the Ohio Society of Steam, Mechanical and Electrical Engineers, and the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education. He wrote the The Use of the Slide Rule (see ISRM K&E and Books Libraries to download) published by Keuffel & Esser in 1915, while the dean of the college of Industrial Science at Toledo University. Cullimore wrote several slide rule instruction manuals for Eugene Dietzgen Company as director of The Newark Technical School (founded in 1881) in New Jersey. Later renamed, New Jersey Institute of Technology. He was president of NJIT from 1920 until 1949 and was responsible for the development of the Newark College of Engineering in 1930. Honorary Doctorate by Rutgers College on June 14, 1943. 1951 Benjamin Garner Lamme Award from the American Society for Engineering Education. Major in the First World War. Graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Who's Who of America. Today, the New Jersey Institute of Technology issues an annual award named for Cullimore and there is a Cullimore Hall named in his honor.


Whos Who in Engineering - A Biographical Dictionary of The Engineer Profession, 1937; 4th Ed.; Edited by Winfield Scott Downs; Lewis Historical Publ Co., NYC.; 1937.

"CULLIMORE, Allan Reginald - Res: So. Orange NJ; b. Jacksonville IL, 2 Mar 1884; son of Thomas and Mary Pearce (JOY) CULLIMORE; m. Brooklyn NY, 25 Mar 1912, Edith VAN ALST."

Author/Speaker/Educator. Prof. Cullimore attended the Belmont School, Belmont, Cal. and took his scientific training at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduating in 1907 with the B.S. degree. The next year he was Assistant in Civil Engineering there. Afterward he did practical work with the U. S. coast and Geodetic Survey on the Columbia River, Washington; was engaged by the American Bridge Co., at their New York office; was appointed Assistant Superintendent of Construction for the city of St. Louis, serving for two years; and he was designing Engineer for the Spuck Iron Foundry Co of St. Louis. He has been Dean of the College of Industrial Science at Toledo University, in Ohio, and for three summers taught railroad and topographical fieldwork at the summer Engineering Camps of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in easter Maine. Prof. Cullimore was a member of the Beta Theta Phi Fraternity, the Ohio Society of Steam, Mechanical and Electrical Engineers, and the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education. He wrote the The Use of the Slide Rule (see ISRM K&E and Books Libraries to download) published by Keuffel & Esser in 1915, while the dean of the college of Industrial Science at Toledo University. Cullimore wrote several slide rule instruction manuals for Eugene Dietzgen Company as director of The Newark Technical School (founded in 1881) in New Jersey. Later renamed, New Jersey Institute of Technology. He was president of NJIT from 1920 until 1949 and was responsible for the development of the Newark College of Engineering in 1930. Honorary Doctorate by Rutgers College on June 14, 1943. 1951 Benjamin Garner Lamme Award from the American Society for Engineering Education. Major in the First World War. Graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Who's Who of America. Today, the New Jersey Institute of Technology issues an annual award named for Cullimore and there is a Cullimore Hall named in his honor.


Whos Who in Engineering - A Biographical Dictionary of The Engineer Profession, 1937; 4th Ed.; Edited by Winfield Scott Downs; Lewis Historical Publ Co., NYC.; 1937.

"CULLIMORE, Allan Reginald - Res: So. Orange NJ; b. Jacksonville IL, 2 Mar 1884; son of Thomas and Mary Pearce (JOY) CULLIMORE; m. Brooklyn NY, 25 Mar 1912, Edith VAN ALST."



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