. Journal of electricity, power, and gas . rity of the AtlanticCoast, and indeed will accentuate the progress and thatof the whole United States. April 16. 1910] JOURNAL OF ELECTRICITY, POWER AND GAS 359 WESTINGHOUSE NEW VICE-PRESIDENT. Mr. Henry D. Shute was appointed to tlie position ofacting vice-president of the Westinghouse Electric & Manu-facturing Company as of April 1, 1910. For seventeen years Mr. Shute has been associated withthis company, and his promotions from time to time have beenof a character to give him a broad experience in shop, salesand executive work. Mr. Shute studied el
. Journal of electricity, power, and gas . rity of the AtlanticCoast, and indeed will accentuate the progress and thatof the whole United States. April 16. 1910] JOURNAL OF ELECTRICITY, POWER AND GAS 359 WESTINGHOUSE NEW VICE-PRESIDENT. Mr. Henry D. Shute was appointed to tlie position ofacting vice-president of the Westinghouse Electric & Manu-facturing Company as of April 1, 1910. For seventeen years Mr. Shute has been associated withthis company, and his promotions from time to time have beenof a character to give him a broad experience in shop, salesand executive work. Mr. Shute studied electrical engineering at the Massa-chusetts Institute of Technology, from which institute hewas graduated in 1892. Following his graduation, he spent ayears study in Germany at the School of Mines, Clausthal,and also in Dresden. It was in 1S93 he entered the works ofthe Westinghouse Company at Pittsburg as an apprentice,spending his first two years in the testing department, fol-lowing which he spent considerable time on erection Hunry D, Shute. on laboratory work, under Mr. C. F. Scott, and later as assist-ant foreman of one of the departments of the works. Thisnaturally gave him a broad experience in shop work, which,with the designing work on alternating current apparatuswhich he subsequently took up in the engineering department,enlarged his experience still more. After five years service with the company, Mr. Shutetook up work in connection with the sales department at theEast Pittsburg office, and in 1901 was made the head of thealternating current division, correspondence department. Twoyears later he was advanced to the position of assistant toVice-President L. A. Osborne, which position he held at thetime of his recent appointment. In this latter position he wasactive in the developments made in heavy electric traction andparticularly in single-phase railway work. Mr. Shute is a member of the American Institute ofElectrical Engineers; a member of the Engineers Cl
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