Adams, Frederick Upham, 1859-1921

LC control no.	no 99038611
Descriptive conventions	rda
LC classification	PS3501.D253
Personal name heading	Adams, Frederick Upham, 1859-1921 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Adams, Frederick U. (Frederick Upham), 1859-1921
Associated country	United States
Birth date	1859-12-10
Death date	1921-08-28
Found in	Conquest of the tropics, 1914: t.p. (Frederick Upham Adams) OCLC, May 28, 1999 (hdg.: Adams, Frederick Upham, 1859-1921; usage: Frederick Upham Adams; Frederick U. Adams) Marquis who's who WWW site, June 19, 2018 (Frederick Upham Adams; born Dec. 10, 1859, Boston, Mass., died Aug. 28, 1921; Mech. engr. by private instrn. and practice, 1882-90. Invented electric lamp-post (now standard in U.S.) 1886, electric light towers, 1887; chief smoke insp., Chicago, 1894-97; constructed exptl. passenger train for B.&O. Ry., which broke speed records, 1900. Lit. sec. Dem. Nat. Com., 1896; founder and editor The New Time, social reform mag., 1896-98. Author: Atmosphere Resistance and Its Relation to the Speed of Railway Trains, 1893; How Cities Are Governed in Great Britain, 1904; The Bottom of the Well, 1905; The Oil War in Mexico, 1909; The Story of Edward Hines, 1912; Conquest of the Tropics, 1913; Romance of Big Business, 1915; Woodrow Wilson vs. Woodrow Wilson, 1919; The Open Shop, 1919. Home: Larchmont Manor, N.Y.)
Associated language	eng