John Forrest Kelly
John Forrest Kelly (born March 28, 1859 in Carrick-on-Suir , Ireland , † October 15, 1922 in Pittsfield , Massachusetts ) was an American inventor.
His parents, Jeremiah and Kate Forrest Kelly, were teachers. He still had eleven siblings. In 1873 he emigrated to the USA and attended the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken , New Jersey , where he received his Bachelor's degree in 1878 and his Ph. D. in 1881 .
He initially worked as an assistant to Edison in the laboratories in Menlo Park . In 1879 he became an engineer with the Western Electric Company in New York. In 1882 he became laboratory assistant to Edward Weston and then chief electrician of the United States Electric Lighting Company (USEL; founded by Weston, Hiram S. Maxim and Farmer).
He became a partner of William Stanley (inventor) and Cummings C. Chesney in the Stanley Electric Manufacturing Company founded in Pittsfield in 1890 . They developed the SKC AC power transmission system , which could be changed in frequency, and which was installed in numerous textile factories and other industries in the 1890s. Kelly registered more than 90 patents and was a co-inventor of the Cooke-Kelly process for drying food.
literature
- Michael Chapman (Boston College), How to Smash the British Empire: John Forrest Kelly's Irish World and the Boycott of 1920-21
- Journal of the American Irish Society, 1907, John Forrest Kelly Papers
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/5/33919/01618640.pdf
- ^ Obituary in the New York Times, Oct. 16, 1922
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kelly, John Forrest |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kelly, John F. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American inventor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 28, 1859 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | near Carrick-on-Suir , Ireland |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 15, 1922 |
| Place of death | Pittsfield , Massachusetts |