Ellery Burton Paine

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Ellery Burton Paine also in the spelling Ellery B. Paine (born October 9, 1875 in Willington , Tolland County , Connecticut , † February 28, 1976 in Urbana , Champaign County , Illinois ) was an American electrical engineer and university professor .

Life

Family and education

The from Willington in State originating Connecticut Ellery Burton Paine, son of Albert Aplin Paine (1835-1908) and his Wife Ellen born Smith (1848-1950), turned to his compulsory education studying electrical engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute to who has acquired his He obtained a Bachelor of Sciences degree in 1897 , and a Master of Science degree in the following year . Ellery Burton Paige graduated in 1904 with an Electrical Engineering Degree .

Ellery Burton Paine married Mabel, née Hyde (1877–1955), on June 6, 1908. The daughter Sylvia Badieh (1909-2001) came from this connection. Ellery Burton Paine, who resided on Pennsylvania Avenue in Urbana, died in early 1976 at the age of 100.

Professional background

Ellery Burton Paine started his first position as an assistant in the testing department of the General Electric Company in Schenectady , New York , in 1898 , and in 1899 he moved to Wilkes-Barre , Pennsylvania , as an electrical engineer for the Lehigh Valley Coal Company . In 1902 Ellery Burton Paine followed the call of Stetson University in DeLand , Florida , to a professorship in Electrical Engineering . In 1904 Paine moved in the same capacity to the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts in Raleigh , North Carolina . In 1907 Ellery Burton Paine moved to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , where he was appointed Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering . In 1913, he was promoted to full professor to succeed Professor Ernest Julius Berg as head of the Department of Electrical Engineering, and in September 1944 he retired with a festive ceremony.

Ellery Burton Paine was a member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers , the American Society for Engineering Education , the Western Society of Engineers, the Sigma Xi , the Tau Beta Pi and the Eta Kappa Nu .

Ellery Burton Paine, one of the leading electrical engineers in the USA of his time, was primarily responsible for the engagement of the sound film pioneer Józef Tykociński-Tykociner, who emigrated to the United States after the October Revolution, to the Department of Electrical Engineering of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. On the occasion of the first public screening of the talkie in 1922, Ellery Burton Paine was elected speaker. "Unable to find the appropriate words for this recording, I decided to repeat Lincoln's Gettysburg Address ," he later recalled. In honor of Paines, Norman R. Carson of Seattle , Washington installed the $ 2,500 Ellery B. Paine Outstanding Junior Award , which is presented annually to outstanding students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Fonts

  • together with Hugh Alexander Brown, Joseph T. Tykociner, Utilities Research Commission (Chicago, Ill.): Investigation of cable ionization characteristics with discharge detection bridge; a report of an investigation conducted by the Engineering Experiment Station, University of Illinois, in cooperation with the Utilities Research Commission, in: University of Illinois bulletin, v. 30, no.50, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1933
  • together with Joseph T. Tykociner, Hugh Alexander Brown, Utilities research commission, Inc .: Oscillations due to ionization in dielectrics and methods of their detection and measurement; a report of an investigation, in: Bulletin (University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus). Engineering Experiment Station), no.259., University of Illinois, Urbana, 1933
  • together with Joseph T. Tykociner, Raymond Edward Tarpley: Oscillations due to corona discharges on wires subjected to alternating potentials, in: University of Illinois bulletin, v. 33, no.3, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1935
  • Papers, 1916-1967, Archival: English

literature

  • Frank W. Scott, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus): The Semi-centennial Alumni Record of the University of Illinois, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1918, p. 924.
  • Who's who in the Midwest, AN Marquis, Chicago, Ill., 1949, p. 959.
  • Who's who in Engineering, John W. Leonard Corp., New York, 1954, p. 1830.
  • Who was who in America. : volume 5, 1969-1973 with world notables , Marquis Who's Who, New Providence, NJ, 1973, p. 551.

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personal data
SURNAME Paine, Ellery Burton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Paine, Ellery B.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American electrical engineer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Willington , Tolland County , Connecticut
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1976
Place of death Urbana , Champaign County , Illinois