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BiographyYouth, education and early careerPowell was born in Brookhaven, Mississippi in 1880 to Edward F. Powell and Hardinia (Burnley) Powell. He attended Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, where he obtained his BSc in 1904.[6] In 1900 Powell had started his career in 1900 at the New York Edison Company, now Consolidated Edison, at the meter and testing department. After his graduation in 1904 until 1907 he was as chemist in charge of the Chemical Laboratory & Mechanical Testing Department.[6] Further career and acknowledgementIn 1907 Powell moved to the Stone & Webster engineering services company in Stoughton, Massachusetts, where he started as engineer on the engineering department.[7] From 1914 to 1920 he was betterment engineer, supervising charge betterment work on several power stations. In 1920 he was appointed consulting engineer for the organization,[8][6] specializing in power stations.[9] In 1952 Powell was elected Fellow of ASME,[10] and in the same year he celebrated fifty years of continuous membership. In 1954 the ASME awarded his that year the ASME Medal for "distinguished service in engineering and science."[11] FamilyPowell married Jessie Elizabeth (Walker) Powell. Their son, Edwin Burnley Powell, Jr. (27 Sept. 1909 – June 1985) followed into his footsteps. He graduated from MIT in 1932[12] and published a series articles about a method of measuring and displaying generator rotor angles in the late 1950s.[13][14] Selected publications
References1. ^ASME. "Powell, Edwin BURNLEY Obituary." Transactions of the ASME. 1963. p. 131 {{ASME Medal|state=collapsed}}{{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Powell, Edwin Burnley}}2. ^Claire Walter, Facts on File, Inc. Winners, the blue ribbon encyclopedia of awards. 1982. p. 485 3. ^Linda S. Hubbard, Notable Americans: What They Did, from 1620 to the Present, 1988. p. 533. 4. ^Carl Stripe, Combustion, Volumes 26-27. 1954. p. 54 5. ^Mechanical Engineering. Volume 77. 1955. p. 86 6. ^1 2 John William Leonard, Winfield Scott Downs, M. M. Lewis, Who's who in Engineering. Volume 9, 1964. p. 1486 7. ^Stone & Webster Public Service Journal. Volume 32. 1923. p. 164 8. ^[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015063579760;view=1up;seq=8 Powell, 1925. ii] 9. ^Power, Volume 85. 1941. p. 84 10. ^American Society for Testing Materials. Bulletin, Nr. 203-218. 1952.p . 76 11. ^ASTM Bulletin, Nr. 203-218. 1955, p. 76 12. ^Clarence Winthrop Bowen. The history of Woodstock, Connecticut. Vol. 6, p. 217 13. ^.B. Powell, M.E. Harper. "Rotor angle by stroboscope." Journal of the IEE, Volume 4, Issue 43, 1958 , p. 387-388 14. ^J. D. Ristroph and E. B. Powell, "Contamination of Condensate by Heat-Exchanger-Tube Alloys," Trans. Amer. Soc. Mech. Engrs,, 1953, 75, 729-745; 6 : 1880 births|1963 deaths|American mechanical engineers|Millsaps College alumni|People from Brookhaven, Mississippi|ASME Medal recipients |
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