. Morton memorial; a history of the Stevens institute of technology, with biographies of the trustees, faculty, and alumni, and a record of the achievements of the Stevens family of engineers. 1503to date. Reeve, H. E. (, 88), has, with theexception of a few months draughting forE. D. Leavitt, Jr., , been engaged inthe manufacture of small articles (principal-ly in the electrical line) which, necessitatingmanufacture at small cost and in large quan-tities, require the use of special tools, whichare also designed by Mr. Reeve and built inhis shop at Brooklyn, N. Y. Raid, Thorburn (,
. Morton memorial; a history of the Stevens institute of technology, with biographies of the trustees, faculty, and alumni, and a record of the achievements of the Stevens family of engineers. 1503to date. Reeve, H. E. (, 88), has, with theexception of a few months draughting forE. D. Leavitt, Jr., , been engaged inthe manufacture of small articles (principal-ly in the electrical line) which, necessitatingmanufacture at small cost and in large quan-tities, require the use of special tools, whichare also designed by Mr. Reeve and built inhis shop at Brooklyn, N. Y. Raid, Thorburn (, 88), was born inLondon, England, May i, 1864. He re-ceived the degree of Bachelor of Arts fromthe Hampden-Sidney College, Virginia, in1882, and that of Bachelor of Science fromthe University of Virginia in 1885. He was Professor of Mechanical Engi-neering in the South Carolina State Uni-versity, during the session of 1888-89; wasin the employ of the United States ElectricalManufacturing Co., Newark, N. J., in chargeof the testing department, and afterwardassistant to Mr. William Stanley, Jr., in in- venting work, until 1890. He then practisedas a consulting engineer in New York until. Thorburn Reu) he undertook the designing of an alternating-current system for the Edison General Elec-tric Co., in 1891. When this companyentered the General Electric Co., he becameengineer in the calculating department ofthe latter at Lynn, Mass., devoting histime at first very largely to designing alter-nating-current apparatus, and later superin-tending the work of the draughtsmen andengineers in that department. In 1893 hewent to Schenectady, and took charge of thereports and technical data of all the dyna-mos, motors, and transformers manufacturedby that company. He next went to London, England, in1896, in the employment of the BritishThompson-Houston Co., as assistant to F. Parshall. After returning to theUnited States he opened an office in NewYork as consulting engineer, in which bu
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