Stevens Institute of Technology - Link Yearbook (Hoboken, NJ)

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'ii 1 i i ., I E9 sulting engineer on the New York-New Jersey tunnel under the Hudson River. The name of William Kent fde- ceased, 19181 will probably be remem- bered by the Mechanical Engineer's Pocket Book of which he was the author. Graduating in 1876. he became editor of the American Manufacturer and I ron World of Pittsburgh, resigning his position in 1879 in order to become Superintendent of the open-hearth plant of the Schoenberger Steel Company. He next took charge of the Pittsburgh oihce of the Babcock and Wilcox Com- pany, and while in their employ he made a number of inventions on boil- ers, furnaces and boiler accessories. On being transferred to New York, he made numerous investigations on high-volatile coals and on smoke abatement. In 1887 he became General Manager of the Spring Torsion Balance Scale Co., developing the methods and machinery for making this highly sensitive scale. From 1890 up to the time of his decease, Mr. Kent was a consulting engineer. He was the holder of more than twenty patents on weighing machinery, water-tube boilers and smokeless furnaces. In addition he was an authority on shop management, being a firm advocate of the principles of scientific managementias set down by Frederick W. Taylor. During his lifetime Mr. Kent was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Stevens men have greatly increased the accuracy and facility of recording temperature and pressures in manufacturing work, and of measuring data con- cerned with the flow of water, gas and electricity. William Henry Bristol, '84, is the inventor of the well-known Bristol pressure and temperature recording gauges. His electrical recorders include volt, ampere, and watt meters for both alternating and direct currents. All told, Mr. Bristol has developed several hundred varieties of the above-emntioned instruments to meet almost every industrial requirement, whereby he has enabled manufacturing operations requiring fixed conditions to be carried on with certainty and economy. He has also patented a steel belt-lacing. Recently Mr. Bristol has been working on the development of f'Talking Movies. ' He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and President of the Bristol Co., Waterbury, Conn. Edward A. Uehling CM. E. '77g E. D, 'QU has also done excellent work on temperature recording instruments, having invented the pneumatic pyrometer. He has perfected an instrument for continuously recording the per cent of carbon dloxide in flue gas: He has made about twenty-five other inventions, one of the most Important being a pig-iron casting machine, in the use of which the iron XV. H . BRIBTOLT 13 2E 2E l

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1EQ Among these is George Gibbs, '89, who has taken out many patents on railroad devices. Of particular note is the fact that he is the inventor of the first all-steel incombustible passenger car ever built. In 1887 he invented a steam-heat coupling, and in 1896 an inter- locking switch andsignal apparatus for rail- way crossings, and a derailing device for railway tracks. He has acted as consulting engineer for railroads throughout the country, as well as forthe Baldwin Locomotive Works and the Westinghouse Electric and Manufactur- ing Company. From 1903 to 1912 he was Chief Engineer of electric traction and station construction for the Pennsylvania Tunnel and Terminal Railroad Company. He ' A' BENSELI was also a Member of the U. S. Government Commission of Railway Experts to Russia in 1917. Mr. Gibbs is a Fellow of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. Robert Munn Dixon, '81 Cdeceased, 19182, spent the greater part of his life in developing heating and lighting systems for railway cars. He was identified with the first application of steam from the locomotive for heating passenger cars and with the development of the use of gas and electricity for lighting railway cars. In the same connection he conceived and put into practice many new and useful schemes including the perfection of hot water circulating systems and direct steam systems. Mr. Dixon started his professional career as adraftsman for the Delaware Bridge Company, and in 1883 entered the employ of the Pintsch Lighting Company. In 1888 he became Engineer of the Safety Car Heating and Lighting Company and Manager of the Pintsch Compressing Company, becoming President of both companies in 1907. Due to his handling of the financial affairs of the A. S. M. E., that society has become one of the leading professional societies of the country. John Anderson Bensel CM. E. '84, E. D. 'QU became Assistant Engineer and Assistant Supervisor in charge of improvements of Dock and Freight Terminals for the Pennsylvania Railroad a few years after graduating, and from 1889 to 1895 he was .Assistant Engineerof the Department of Docks,New York City. Among the various capacities in which he subsequently served were those of Engineer for Philadelphia in improvements of a mile of waterfront on the Delaware Riverg Engineer-in-Chief, Department of Docks, City of New York, Commissioner of Docks, 1906 to 1908, President of the Board of Water Supply Constructing the new Catskill System, 1908 to 1911: and State Engineer of the State of New York, 1911 to 1915, during which time he was employed on the construction of the Barge Canal across the State. During the recent war he was Major of Engineers, Army of the United States, commanding the 125th Battalion of Engineers. He is at present consulting engineer for various municipalities in New York State, and con- 12 2 E

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EIEQ 2525 nowhere comes in contact with sand or other injurious substances, and due to the mechanical conveying features employed with the machine, no labor is expended on the iron from the time it leaves the ladle until it is shipped in the car. This machine is a necessity in the use of the huge modern American blast furnaces. Mr. Uehling is now President of the Uehling Instrument Company, New York City. The manufacture of water-meters became the first interest of Lewis Hallock Nash CM. E. '77, E. D. '21D, who entered the employ of the National Meter Co., immediately upon graduating. Here he devoted himself to improving the exist- ing water meters, and shortly afterward produced the Crown', Meter, the first of a large class of single piston rotary meters which have since been on the market. Patents on other forms of water meters, such as the '6Empire,', the Improved Gem, and the Nash are included in his sixty or more U. S. patents on water meters. Mr. Nash took up the study of the gas engine in 1884-, and since then he has taken out for his company more than sixty patents covering its design and oper- ation. One of his patents is concerned with the starting of gas engines by means of compressed air, which feature is now employed by numerous gas engine manufacturers. Mr. Nash is now President of the Nash Engineering Co., South Norwalk, Conn. Power and lighting engineering has offered a broad field for Stevens Alumni. Aman who has planned and superintended the construction of numerous steam plants for electric light, power and railway companies in different sections of the country is Frank E. Idell CM. E. '77, E. D. '21J. He has also designed refrigerating plants and factory building and power equipment for various industries. Much of Mr. Idell's work has been pioneer, having been performed in the early days of the pro- fession of mechanical engineering. He has been connected in a professional way with a large number of industrial plants all over the country, has rendered expert engineering testimony in many legal cases, and has edited books on the subject of chimneys, boiler incrustation, theory of the gas engine, compressed air, triple ex- pansion engine, engine trials, etc. Mr. Idell is a consulting engineer, having offices in New York City. A The first electrical station in the United States supplying current for incan- descent lighting and power from an underground system, was the old Pearl Street Edison Station, New York City. Supervision of the electrical equipment of this station was given to John William Lieb CM. E. '80, E. D. 'QD upon his graduation from the Institute. Mr. Lieb did pioneer work as an associate of Mr. Edison in the development of a complete system of incandescent electric lighting. He installed the mechanical equipment of the Edison Station in Milan, Italy, in 1883, and ten years later obtained for the Milan Edison Co. the franchise for replacing the entire horse-car system of that city by an electric trolley system. He is now Vice-Presi- dent of the New York Edison Co. and Executive Head of the joint operation of the various electric enterprises affiliated with the Consolidated Gas Company of New York. Mr. Lieb has served in the capacity of President, Vice-President, and Chair- man of various engineering societies, and is a member of many other engineering societies and civic organizations. He is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Science. 14-