William Le Roy Emmet

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William Le Roy Emmet
U.S. Naval Academy
AwardsIEEE Edison Medal (1919)
Elliott Cresson Medal (1920)
Scientific career
FieldsElectrical engineering
InstitutionsGeneral Electric Company

William Le Roy Emmet (July 10, 1859 – September 26, 1941) was an

electrical engineer who made major contributions to alternating current
power systems including the design of large rotary converters.

Biography

Coat of Arms of William Le Roy Emmet

Emmet was born in

Julia Colt Pierson. He is the great-grandson of Thomas Addis Emmet, a lawyer, who was an elder brother of executed Irish nationalist Robert Emmet
. His father's parents were Robert Emmet and Rosina Hubley. His mother's parents were Josiah G. Pierson and Julia Colt.

His sisters included noted portrait artists Rosina Emmet Sherwood, Lydia Field Emmet and Jane Emmet de Glehn.[1]

In addition his brothers included,

William LeRoy Emmet, a graduate of the United States Naval Academy, Class of 1881; Devereux Emmet, who became a prominent golf course architect; and Richard Stockton Emmet.[2] His uncle, John Emmet, attended West Point from 1814 to 1817. His first cousin was portrait artist Ellen Emmet Rand
.

He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1881. He joined the Edison General Electric Company in 1891. Three years later, after a merger, he became employee of General Electric Company (GE). Emmet was a leading advocate of the electrical propulsion of ships from turbines. His systems were first used in American ships during World War I.[3] He also developed the mercury vapour turbine system for electric power production.

Emmet was elected to the

National Academy of Sciences in 1921.[5] Emmet worked at GE into his 70s and held 122 patents.[6]

Writing

Emmet's autobiography, Autobiography of an engineer, was published by Fort Orange Press in 1930 or 1931.

Sources

References

  1. ^ Willard, Francis E.; Livermore, Mary A., eds. (1903). A Woman of the Century. New York: Charles Wells Moulton. pp. 654. Retrieved April 18, 2009.
  2. ^ Biographical record of the graduates and former students of the Yale Forest School. Yale Forest School. 1913. p. 39. Retrieved April 18, 2009.
  3. ISBN 9780313047053
    .
  4. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2024-02-12.
  5. ^ "William L. Emmet". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2024-02-12.
  6. ^ Current Biography 1941, p262

External links

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