Charles le Maistre

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Charles Delacour le Maistre (born January 6, 1874 in Jersey , † July 5, 1953 in Bramley , Surrey ) is considered the father of international standardization in the field of electrical engineering .

The pastor's son attended Brighton College and from 1891 the London Central Technical College in South Kensington, where he became a student member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) in 1894. In 1896 he found employment in the electrical department of the Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding and Engineering Company , where he completed the first two years a pupilage under Charles E. Grove.

From 1901 he devoted himself to standardization. He became assistant to the Secretary of the Engineering Standards Committee . In 1902 he was involved in the British Standards Institute (BSI). He worked closely with Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton to set up the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), of which he became the first general secretary in 1906.

He initiated a series of meetings that led to the founding of the International Federation of the National Standardizing Associations in 1926 , a forerunner of the ISO founded in 1946 .

Honors

In 1920 le Maistre became Commander of the British Empire . Sweden awarded him the Wasa Order . Shortly before his death, France appointed him Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur .

literature

  • JoAnne Yates, Craig N. Murphy: Charles Le Maistre: Entreprise in International Standardization , in: Entreprise et Histoires, 51 (2008), pp. 10-27.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/content/article/10.1680/iicep.1953.11140
  2. ↑ http://jyates.scripts.mit.edu/docs/Yates%20Murphy%20%20Histoire%20et%20Entreprise%20submitted.pdf

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personal data
SURNAME Maistre, Charles le
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maistre, Charles Delacour le (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British pioneer in the standardization of electrical engineering
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH jersey
DATE OF DEATH 5th July 1953
Place of death Bramley , Surrey