Addams Stratton McAllister

From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
Jump to: navigation, search

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

Addams Stratton McAllister, Ph.D. (24 February 1875 in Covington, Va., USA – 26 November 1946 in Clifton Forge, Va.) was an American electrical engineer and editor.

He was educated at Pennsylvania State College (B.S. 1898; E.E., 1900) and at Cornell (M.M.E., 1901; Ph.D., 1905).

He was employed by the Berwind-White Coal Mining Company in 1898 and by the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company in 1899. He was associate editor (1905-12) and thereafter editor of the Electrical World. He contributed many articles on engineering subjects to technical publications. In 1915 he was president of the Illuminating Engineering Society. He wrote:

  • Alternating Current Motors (1906; third edition, 1909)
  • Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers (1907)
  • The Descendants of John Thomson


<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>