| LC control no. | n 2011020763 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Emmet, William Le Roy, 1859-1941 |
| See also | Family: Emmet, William Le Roy, 1859-1941 |
| Birth date | 1859-07-10 |
| Death date | 1941-09-26 |
| Place of birth | New Rochelle (N.Y.) |
| Place of death | Erie (Pa.) |
| Field of activity | Electrical engineering |
| Affiliation | Edison General Electric Company General Electric Company |
| Profession or occupation | Electrical engineers |
| Found in | The autobiography of an engineer, 1931: t.p. (William Le Roy Emmet) Whitney, W.R. Biographical memoir of William Le Roy Emmet, 1859-1941, 1943: p. 234 (b. July 10, 1859, Travers Island, near New York) p. 248 (d. Sept. 26, 1941, Erie, Pa.) Wikipedia, December 4, 2020 (William Le Roy Emmet; William Le Roy Emmet (July 10, 1859--September 26, 1941) was an electrical engineer who made major contributions to alternating current power systems including the design of large rotary converters; Emmet was born in New Rochelle, New York and graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1881; he joined the Edison General Electric Company in 1891; three years later, after a merger, he became an employee of General Electric Company (GE); Emmet was a leading advocate of the electrical propulsion of ships from turbines; his systems were first used in American ships during World War I; he also developed the mercury vapour turbine system for electric power production; he worked at GE into his 70s and held 122 patents; was the great-grandson of Thomas Addis Emmet, a lawyer, who was an elder brother of executed Irish nationalist Robert Emmet) Finding Aid to the Emmet Family papers ... in the Archives of American Art: biographical note (family descended from Thomas Addis Emmet, Thomas Addis Emmet, brother of Irish martyr Robert Emmet) <https://sova.si.edu//record/AAA.emmefami> |
| Associated language | eng |
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