| 词条 | William Henry Merrill |
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William Henry Merrill, II (December 29, 1868 – September 17, 1923)[1] was an American electrical engineer who founded Underwriters Laboratories in 1894. BiographyMerrill was born in Warsaw, Wyoming County, New York. He was the son of William Henry Merrill (1840-1907), an editorial writer of the Boston Herald, and Flora Agnes Judd (1842-1880). He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1889. In 1897 he married Bessie A Henderson (1872-1956); they had five children. He was a member of the Midday and University clubs of Chicago and of the Sigma Chi college fraternity. He died on 17 September 1923 at the Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. His burial was held at the Merrill Plot at Warsaw Cemetery in Warsaw, Wyoming County, New York. CareerMerrill began his professional career as an electrical engineer in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1893, he was sent to Chicago, Illinois to investigate the World's Fair Palace of Electricity. He was hired by insurers for the World's Columbian Exposition to examine the safety of the electrical wiring in the Palace of Electricity. This experience led him to eventually found the Underwriter's Electrical Bureau in 1894,[2] which later became Underwriters Laboratories in 1903. From 1903 to 1909, he was the Secretary/Treasurer of the National Fire Protection Association, becoming the President of the association from 1910 to 1912. In 1916 he became the first president of Underwriters Laboratories, which subsequently grew into an international safety consulting and certification company. In 1918 he was drafted for war service at $1 per year, serving as chairman of the fire prevention section of the war industries board.[3] References1. ^{{cite journal | title = In Memoriam: William Henry Merrill | journal = Proceedings of the 28th Annual Meeting of the National Fire Protection Association | year = 1924 | page = 27}} 2. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.ul.com/aboutul/history/|title=History {{!}} UL|date=2014-08-01|work=UL|access-date=2017-08-18|language=en-US}} 3. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php?id=2201|title=Underwriters Laboratories in the First World War - World War I Centennial|website=www.worldwar1centennial.org|language=en-gb|access-date=2017-08-18}} External links
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