Posts Tagged ‘Portrait’
Thomas Edison Portrait circa 1904
Profile – Alexander Crombie Humphreys circa 1903
[as reprinted from Cassier’s magazine 1903] That the engineer should be a business man, or at least conversant with business conditions and methods, has been the leading principle in Dr. Alexander Crombie Humphreys’ just opening career as an engineering educator, and Stevens Institute of Technology, atHoboken, N. J., of which he became president last year,…
Read MoreBiography – Nelson Stow, Inventor of the Flexible Shaft
BORN: Windsor, New York, on September 12, 1828 [as reprinted from Cassier’s magazine v. 27 Nov. 1904-Apr. 1905. Article by Leon Mead] Like many other inventions, the flexible shaft was the product of suggestion or association of ideas. In the course of a chat with Nelson Stow just before his death, a few months ago,…
Read MoreProfile – John R. Freeman, President ASME circa 1905
[as reprinted from Cassier’s magazine v. 27 Nov. 1904-Apr. 1905] It has been stated more than once, semi humorously, that an essential qualification for prominence in later life seems to be country birth and early education, away from the atmosphere of large towns, and that qualification Mr. Freeman has, having been born in the little…
Read MoreProfile – Albert William Smith, Director Sibley College, Cornell University
Born on August 30, 1856, he lived in Westmoreland, Oneida County, New York, until he entered Cornell University with the class of [18]78. His first position after graduation was with the Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company, at Providence, R. I. Next he was associated with Professor John E. Sweet at the Straight Line Engine Works,…
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