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[Up] [Dromo's Den] Frederick Hutton Biography HUTTON,
Frederick Remsen (1853-[1918]) An American mechanical engineer, born in New York
City. He graduated from Columbia College in 1873 and in 1876 from the Columbia
School of Mines, where he became assistant and where he was professor of
mechanical engineering from 1891 until his retirement in 1907. From 1899 to 1906
he was dean of the faculty of applied science. In 1892 he became associate
editor of the Engineering Magazine, in 1893 an editor of Johnson's Cyclopędia,
and in 1913 a contributor to the NEW INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPĘDIA. From 1883 to
1906 he was secretary, and in 1907 president, of the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers. Columbia University gave him the honorary degree of Sc.D.
in 1904, and Rutgers College similarly honored him in 1913. In 1911 he was
consulting engineer for the department of water, gas, and electricity of New
York City, and has been chairman of the technical committee of the Automobile
Club of America for many terms. He wrote reports on machine tools for the census
of 1880; Mechanical Engineering of Power
Plants (1897; 3d ed., 1909); Heat and
Heat Engines (1899); The Gas-Engine
(1903; 3d ed., 1908). The New International
Encyclopaedia, Vol. XI
(New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920)
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