Frank Koester
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Frank Koester, born Franz Köster (28 August 1876,
.Biography
He received ten years of theoretical training, with practical engineering and municipal experience in Germany, including four years of shop and field practice. After winning a gold medal for electrical engineering at the
American Smelting and Refining Company A considerable part of his practice has been devoted to the design, construction and operation of power stations
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Recognizing the great potential in
Scranton
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Works
- Steam Electric Power Plants (New York and London, 1908)
- Hydro-electric Developments and Engineering (New York and London, 1909)
- The Price of Inefficiency (New York, 1913)
- Electricity for the Farm and Home (New York, 1913)
- Modern City Planning and Maintenance (New York and London, 1914)
- Secrets of German Progress (New York, 1915)
- Under the Desert Stars (speculative fiction) (New York, 1923)
Sources
- "Koester, American City Planning". library.cornell.edu. Retrieved 17 April 2011. Biographical introduction and an electronic version of Koester's article "American City Planning". The American Architect. 102: 141–146. October 23, 1912.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). . Encyclopedia Americana.
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