Posts Tagged ‘Portrait’
W. Cawthorne Unwin Portrait circa 1895
Profile Alexander Graham Bell circa 1895
[as reprinted from Cassier’s magazine v. 8 May-Oct. 1895] With the publication, in this number, of several articles on telephony and telegraphy, it would seem appropriate to give space also to an account, however brief, of Alexander Graham Bell, whose investigations and practical developments in the field of electrical transmission of speech have given us…
Read MoreProfile of Sir Benjamin Baker, Designer of the Forth Bridge
[as reprinted from Cassier’s magazine v. 17 Nov. 1899-Apr. 1900] While Sir Benjamin Baker has designed and advised upon many engineering works of great importance, including, among others, the ship railway across the Bay of Fundy, several subaqueous tunnels, the barrage of the Nile, in brief, most of the great engineering projects of recent years,…
Read MoreProfile of Eli Whitney – Inventor of the Cotton Gin
[as reprinted from Cassier’s magazine v. 17 Nov. 1899-Apr. 1900] As the founder of the modern system of interchangeable manufacture of machinery parts which, at the present time, has a special significance in the competition for the world’ s market for engineering workshop products, Eli Whitney will always figure prominently in engineering history, though he…
Read MoreProfile and Portrait Edward A. Rumely circa 1912
[as reprinted from Cassier’s magazine v. 42 no. 1-5 July-Nov. 1912] Edward A. Rumely […] was born at La Porte, Ind., in 1882, being the son of Joseph J. Rumely, and grandson of Meinrad Rumely, the founder of the agricultural machinery manufacturing industry of the M. Rumely Company, of La Porte. He received his early…
Read MoreProfile of A.E. Kennelly
[as reprinted from Cassier’s magazine v. 6 May-Oct. 1894] Among the several electrical engineers who have rapidly risen to prominence within recent years, Mr. A. E. Kennelly, whose portrait appears in this number, occupies a conspicuous position. Mr. Kennelly was born in Bombay, India, in 1861, and it is from his father, at that time…
Read MoreJames Prescott Joule by Lord Kelvin
[as reprinted from Cassier’s magazine v. 6 May-Oct. 1894. Article By Lord Kelvin] The unveiling, last December, of a statue of Dr. James Prescott Joule, at Manchester, England, has given that city the possession of a work of art which will ever remain an ornament and an honor to it. Joule’s work began in Manchester,…
Read MoreBiography of Henry Morton, President of the Stevens Intitute of Technology circa 1894
[as reprinted from Cassier’s magazine v. 6 May-Oct. 1894. Article By Prof. Coleman Sellers, E.D.] Dr. Henry Morton was born in the city of New York, at the residence of his maternal grandfather, on Varick street, facing what was then St. John’s Park, now occupied by the immense freight depot of the Hudson River railroad.…
Read MoreProfile – John Heman Converse circa 1901
[as reprinted from Cassier’s magazine v. 20 May-Oct. 1901] New England has always claimed more credit for raising school houses and men than wheat crops and other staples. Her sons have overrun the small confines which mark her boundaries, and have gone forth to every section of the country. By their native shrewdness and energy…
Read MoreProfile – Charles R. Flint circa 1901
[[The Father of Trusts as reprinted from Cassier’s magazine v. 20 May-Oct. 1901. Article by W. D. Walker] It would be difficult, in the small space here at command, to give any detailed sketch of Mr. Flint. The closing years of the nineteenth century will be referrred to in the future as the period when…
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