. 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. lice A. (Board-man) Reed. He is descended from JohnReed, who distinguished himself in Crom-wells army in England, and at the restora-tion of the Stuarts came to America andsettled at Providence, R. I. Another ances-tor was John Crane, who settled in Massa-chusetts in 1635 and whose descendants weredistinguished in the Revolution. While in the Newark high school, HarryDouglas Reed won the Hammer prize for
. 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. lice A. (Board-man) Reed. He is descended from JohnReed, who distinguished himself in Crom-wells army in England, and at the restora-tion of the Stuarts came to America andsettled at Providence, R. I. Another ances-tor was John Crane, who settled in Massa-chusetts in 1635 and whose descendants weredistinguished in the Revolution. While in the Newark high school, HarryDouglas Reed won the Hammer prize formaking the best set of apparatus for demon-strating the elementary principles of elec-tricity and physics. He has won severalprizes for bicycle-riding and tennis-playing. Immediately after graduating he secureda position with the Bishop Gutta Percha Co.,New York, manufacturers of submarine tel-egraph and telephone cables insulated withgutta percha or india-rubber, undergroundelectric light and power cables, and specialpower-station cables. His first work was inestimating the cost of labor and material oncables. Then he was made assistant elec-trician, and in January, 1895, was promoted. to the position of electrician and engineer,his work having included the designing ofnew machinery and electrical test work em-bracing tests for insulation, capacity, andconductivity of cables before shipment, and 536 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY often after laying. In July, 1893, he hadcharge of the laying of two cables for theUnited States Life Saving Service in LakeHuron,—one from Middle Island, and theother from Thunder Island, to the 1894 he laid a cable from Fort Wads-worth to Fort Hamilton, across the NewYork Narrows, for the United States ArmyEngineers. In December, 1899, the com-panys factory was badly damaged by fire,and he was given charge of rebuilding thefactory, repairing the old machinery, andmaking new. On ? the completion of thiswork he was appointed superin
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