. 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. with Mr. Merrifield, who was a colleague duringhis connection with the United Gas Improve-ment Co., and the Pearsons (father andson) of Toronto, to organize the EconomicalGas Apparatus Construction Company, Ltd.,of Toronto, and was made its manager andtreasurer. The chief business of the com-pany was to provide the parburetted water-gas apparatus known as the Merrifield-West-cott-Pearson setting. Th
. 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. with Mr. Merrifield, who was a colleague duringhis connection with the United Gas Improve-ment Co., and the Pearsons (father andson) of Toronto, to organize the EconomicalGas Apparatus Construction Company, Ltd.,of Toronto, and was made its manager andtreasurer. The chief business of the com-pany was to provide the parburetted water-gas apparatus known as the Merrifield-West-cott-Pearson setting. These settings wereerected at Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto, andBelleville, in Canada, at Kingston, Pa., andother places in America. At the same time Mr. Westcott had a pri-vate consulting practice for .several com-panies in Canada, and was called upon togive expert testimony upon gas matters. The Economical company had agents inLondon, but it soon became necessary to es-tablish a London house, and in 1894 Mr. THE ALUMNI 605 Westcott was appointed to take charge of theEuropean business. Soon after his arrivalin England Mr. Westcott secured a contractwith the Corporation of Blackburn for the. J. T. Westcott supply and erection of two settings of theImproved Lowe carburetted water-gas plantsof a combined capacity of 1,250,000 cubicfeet per diem. This order was soon suc-ceeded by others, and since 1894 more thanthirty plants have been erected in Englandalone, besides others in Holland, Japan, andSouth America. Mr. Westcott has taken out patents inEngland for improvements in apparatus forthe manufacture of water-gas, 1894, andjointly with L. L. Mersifield and W. , Jr., forimprovements in apparatusfor the manufacture of carburetted water-gas, 1893. He has also taken out severalUnited States patents. He has written several articles for tech-nical journals; one, on The Evolution ofOil Heaters, appeared in LigJit, Heat, andPozvcr, of Philadelphia, in 1894. Observa-tions on Carburett
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