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Title: Morton memorial; a history of the Stevens institute of technology, with biographies of the trustees, faculty, and alumni, and a record of the achievements of the Stevens family of engineers
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Furman, Franklin De Ronde, 1870- ed
Subjects: Stevens family Morton, Henry, 1836-1902 Stevens Institute of Technology
Publisher: Hoboken, N.J., Stevens institute of technology
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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neequipped under Mr. Liebs direction in 1893,for the purpose of exhibiting to the Milanpublic a model trolley equipment, on the sue--cessful performance of which the Milan Ed-ison Co. was awarded the franchise for thetransformation to the trolley system of theentire horse car system of the city, with anequipment of 300 cars. Mr. Lieb returned to the United States in1893 to become assistant to the first vice-president of the Edison Electric IlluminatingCompany of New York, and was subsequent-ly appointed assistant general manager andlater general manager. On the consolida-tion of the various electric lighting andpower interests in New York city under theauspices of the New York Edison Co., Mr.Lieb was appointed third vice-president andassociate general manager. He is also presi-dent of the Electrical Testing Laboratories, 468 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY and a director in a number of electrical cor-porations. He was appointed by PresidentElihu Thomson (President of the Committee
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Electric Street Railway at MilaJ. W. Lich, Jr. of Organization of the St. Louis Interna-tional Electrical Congress^chairman of Sec-tion E., Electric Light and Distribution.His writings comprise the following: Underground Electric Light Wires, Indus-tries, (London), March 30. 1888. The De Laval Steam Turbine (discussion),presented at meeting of the American Societyof Mechanical Engineers, December, 1895. An Historic Electric Central Station.Presidential address before the New York Elec-trical Society; abstract published in GassiersMagazine, May, 1896. Methods of Charging for Electric Current,paper read before the Association of EdisonIlluminating Companies at the Niagara FallsConvention, September, 1897. Also discussions on variotis subjects, pub-lished in the Transactions of the AmericanSociety of Mechanical Engineers, the AinericanInstitute of Electrical Engineers, and the Asso-ciation of Edison Illuminating Companies. He is president of the American Instituteof Electrical Engineers;

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