词条 | Arthur M. Wellington |
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The pioneering effort of Wellington in engineering economics in the 1870s was continued by John Charles Lounsbury Fish with the publication of Engineering Economics: First Principles in 1923 and the first publication of the Principles of Engineering Economy in 1930 by Eugene L. Grant. Early Life and WorksHe was born on December 25, 1847, in Waltham, Massachusetts. In 1878,[1] he married Agnes Bates, and they had two children. Wellington was a descendant of Roger Wellington, an early settler of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1636 and Benjamin Wellington.[1] In 1863, Wellington graduated from the Boston Latin School and then studied engineering with John Benjamin Henck, a prominent civil engineer practicing in Boston.[2] While his work with Henck took place during the American civil war, he studied mechanical engineering and passed the examination for an assistant engineer in the United States Navy but with the end of the War, never received an appointment.[2] Surveyor and locating engineerWellington left Henck's office in 1866 to work as a surveyor in the engineers corps at the Brooklyn Parks department[2] on the Prospect Park project under Frederick Law Olmsted.[1] In 1868, he took a position as a surveyor on a locating party for the Blue Ridge railroad in South Carolina in charge of a series of explorations to find possible routes for the railroad.[2] Wellington left the South Carolina road and went on to practice location engineering for the Dutchess & Columbia railroad in New York state.[2] He left that road in 1870 to work on the Buffalo, New York & Philadelphia railroad as a division engineer for the next three years.[2] He continued in this position until the financial panic of 1873 put a sudden stop to railway construction.[2][1] He was appointed as Chief Engineer of the Toledo and Canada Southern Railway in 1872. He then went to work for the Buffalo and Erie Railroad, the West Farms Railway and the Canadian Great Western Railway. He was made engineer in charge of the Mexican National Railway in March 1881, and afterward, he became the Assistant General Manager of the Mexican Central Railway. He returned to Manhattan, New York City and became one of the editors of The Railroad Gazette in 1884. HonorsHe then became editor and part owner of The Engineering News.[1] In 1891, Wellington was elected a member of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers.[3] DeathWellington died on May 17, 1895 in Manhattan, New York City at age 47.[4][5] He was interred at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York City. Partial bibliography
PatentsWellington received three patents for his work:
Legacy
References1. ^1 2 Thueson, Gerald J., and William G. Sullivan. "Engineering Economy A Historical Perspective." Session 1639 (1847): 1-8 Accessed at [https://peer.asee.org/engineering-economy-a-historical-perspective] 2. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 Wellington Obituary in Engineering News and American Railway Journal, Vol. 33, No. 21, May 23, 1895, pp. 886-888. Accessed at [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.e0000407064;view=2up;seq=392;size=200 ] {{PD-notice}} 3. ^Transactions of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers, Volumes 9-10, By Canadian Society of Civil Engineers. Accessed at [https://books.google.com/books?id=sjg8AQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA445&ots=efPCwSju6W&dq=Henck's%20field%20book%20for%20civil%20engineers&pg=PA450#v=onepage&q=Henck's%20field%20book%20for%20civil%20engineers&f=false] on January 2, 2018. {{PD-notice}} 4. ^1 {{cite news |author= |coauthors= |title=Arthur M. Wellington |quote=Arthur M. Wellington died at New York after a prolonged illness. Mr. Wellington was chief engineer of the Toledo and Canada Southern railway, ... |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |date=May 18, 1895 }} 5. ^1 2 3 {{cite news |author= |title=Arthur M. Wellington |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arthur_Mellen_Wellington_obituary_in_the_New_York_Times_on_May_18,_1895.png |quote= |newspaper=The New York Times |date=May 18, 1895 }} 6. ^Wellington, A. M. 1847-1895. (1877). Economic theory of the location of railways: an analysis of the conditions controlling the laying out of railways to effect the most judicious expenditure of capital. first ed. New York: Wiley. Accessed at [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044091863894;view=2up;seq=8] on September 18, 2018. 7. ^Wellington, A. M. 1847-1895. (1914). Economic theory of the location of railways. Sixth ed. New York: Wiley.Accessed at [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015021066389;view=2up;seq=6;size=150] on September 18, 2018. 8. ^1 Powell, Fred Wilbur. The railroads of Mexico. Stratford, 1921. Accessed at [https://books.google.com/books?id=nj8aAAAAMAAJ&dq=Wellington%20%22chief%20engineer%22%20%22mexican%20national%20railway%22&pg=PA215#v=onepage&q=Wellington&f=false]. 9. ^[https://patents.google.com/patent/US549981] 10. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.asce.org/templates/award-detail.aspx?id=1605|title=Arthur M. Wellington Prize|last=|first=|date=January 1, 2018|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=January 1, 2018}} 11. ^{{cite web|last1=Anon.|title=ENGINEERING ECONOMY (EE) WELLINGTON AWARD|url=http://www.iise.org/Details.aspx?id=3020|website=iise.org]|publisher=Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers|accessdate=18 February 2018}} External links
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