Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - Transit Yearbook (Troy, NY)

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f52i'f'fg:Qg3.4l9'Tg3l11, jfa:5afg2 xv 1 Yi ' - Home A ,,',,,gW 5.:U,v-7-Li,n17gi ,GET A V .. ily. g:gf,Q-gy ...i w , .fJi,.,i , fr ' ' ' ' f f 2 . i g ' it-, L ' W ir' j' 1 -Q . ' ' if 11 :if-1 .. ...... . vias, ' William Lispenard Robb, LL.D., Ph.D., Professor of Electrical Engineering and Pligsics. Columbia 80, CDB K, TBH, EE. Born at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., on May 9, 1861. He prepared for college at the Owego Academy and entered Columbia in 1876 and graduated in 1880. He was awarded the fellowship in science and spent the next three years in Germany, where he studied under Kohhausch, von Helmholtz and Kirehoff, taking the degree of Ph. D. from the University of Berlin. Upon his return he was appointed Assistant in Mathematics at the School of Mines of Columbia University. In 1885 he was called to Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., as Professor of Physics, where he remained seventeen years. He is Consulting Engineer of numerous corporations, notably the Hartford Electric Light Co., the New York Shipbuilding Co., the General Electric Co., and the Troy Gas Co. During the Spanish war he was in charge of the installation of submarine mines in Long Island Sound. He is a member of the American Physical Society, American Electro-chemical Society, and of the American In- stitute of Electrical Engineers and the New York Academy of Sciences. A Edward Richard Cary, C. E., Professor of Geodesy and Railroad Engineering. R. P. 1. iss, R. s. zz, Tian. Born December 19, 1865,at Troy, N. Y., was educated in the public schools of Troy, N. Y. Entered the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in September 1884 and graduated in June, 1888, Appointed Assistant in Geodesy in September, 1888, Instructor in Botany September, 1892, and Professor of Geodesy and Railroad Engineering in 1904. In general engineering practice in the firm of Cary ck Roemer, Troy, N. Y. from 1896 to 1905. Engineer for the Hoosick Falls Electric Railway, The Hoosick Falls and Bennington Electric Railway and the Ballston Terminal Railway. Engineer for Green Island, N. Y., and Watervliet, N. Y., City Engineer of Troy, N. Y., from January 1900 to January 1903 and from January 1906 to January 1908. Consulting Engineer for Sewer Systems at Poultney, Vt., and Corning, N. Y., for the Vifatervliet Hydraulic Company and for the Wynasets Kill Knitting Company. Member of the Am. Soc. C. E. N. Y. R. R. Club and Soc. Engr's of E. N. Y. A John Mason Clarke, Ph.D., ScD., LL.D. Professor 0fGe0Z0gg. Born at Canandaigua, N. Y., 1857, A. B., Amherst, 1887, A. M., 1882. Studied at Goettin- gen, 1882-'84,Hon. A. M.and Ph.D., Marburg, 1898,LL. D., Amherst, 1902, Sc.D., Colgate. 1909. Instructor in geology, Amherst, 1879, Professor of geology and Zoology, Smith College, 1881-5. Lecturer on geology, Mass. Agricultural College, 1885, Ass't. N. Y. State Paleontolo- gist, 1886 5 Professor of Geology, R. P. I., 1894, State Paleontologist, 1898-'04, State Geologist and Paleontologist, and Director State Museum and Science Division, N. Y. Department of Education, 1904, which position he now holds. Member of the National Academy of Sciences and honorary member of several American, English, German and Russian societies Rfgzlipignt of the Hayden gold medal, 1908. Author of 200 books and papers on scientific su Jec s. 20

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