Rolla C. Carpenter

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Rolla Clinton Carpenter, from: Cassier's Magazine, January 1892.

Rolla Clinton Carpenter (born June 26, 1852 in Orion , Michigan , † 1919 ) was an American engineer , university lecturer and non-fiction author .

family

Rolla C. Carpenter was born on June 26, 1852 in Orion (now Lake Orion), Michigan, to Charles K. and Jeanette Carpenter, b. Coryell, born. His younger brother was the hydraulic engineer and professor of mathematics, Louis George Carpenter , (born March 28, 1861 in Orion; Michigan, † September 12, 1935 in Denver , Colorado ). His other siblings were William Leland Carpenter (1854-1936), Blanche Carpenter (married Seeley) (1857-1945) and Mary Carpenter (married Mayo) (1866-1955).

Rolla C. Carpenter married Marion Dewey in Greenville, Michigan in 1876 . The couple had three children: George Dewey (* 1882), Naomi Jeanette (* 1879) and Charles K. (* 1884).

Career

Rolla C. Carpenter earned a Bachelor of Sciences (BS) from Michigan State Agricultural College (MAC, now Michigan State University ) in 1873 and then worked for about a year as an engineer for a railroad company. In 1875 he earned a degree as civil engineer from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor , in 1876 he earned a Master of Sciences (MS), in 1888 the Master of Medical Education (MME). In 1907 he received an honorary doctorate in law (LL.D.) from Michigan State Agricultural College. From 1875 to 1890, he was Professor of Mathematics and Civil Engineering at Michigan State Agricultural College; During this time he designed a large part of the building for the then new agricultural college and supervised its construction. In 1887 he and Professor William James Beal founded the "Collegeville" settlement near Michigan State Agricultural College, which later became the city of East Lansing , Michigan.

He designed a dam on the Red Cedar River .

In 1890 he was appointed "Associate Professor of Experimental Engineering" at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York . Carpenter was 1893 jury (judges) for machinery and transport at the World Exposition in Chicago ( World's Columbian Exposition ).

Carpenter was director of the “Mississippi Valley Portland Cement Company” in Louisiana (Missouri) and works as a consulting engineer for various cement manufacturers such as Helderburg Cement, Cayuga Lake Cement, Belleville Cement, Kosmos Cement, Quaker Cement, California Portland Cement; also for power plant companies such as the Ontario Power Company in Niagara Falls (Ontario) and the Apple River Power Company in Saint Paul (Minnesota) and for light rail companies such as the Utica Street Railroad and the Cortland Street Railroad.

Rolla C. Carpenter was an expert in the legal dispute over the Selden patent on automobiles between 1899 and 1911.

In 1915 he investigated the slope slides on the Panama Canal on behalf of the American Academy of Science .

Carpenter was 1898 President of the American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers ("American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers"). He was also a member of the "American Society of Mechanical Engineers", "American Society of Mining Engineers", "American Society of Automobile Engineers" and the "American Society of Refrigerating Engineers".

Publications

In addition to numerous scientific articles, he published the following specialist books:

  • "Experimental Engineering and Manual for Testing" (1890)
  • "Heating and Ventilating Buildings: a Manual for Heating Engineers and Architects" (John Wiley & Sons, 1891)
  • "Instructions for Mechanical Laboratory Practice: Text-Book of Experimental Engineering" (John Wiley & Sons, 1892)
  • "Internal Combustion Engines: Their Theory, Construction and Operation" (D. Van Nostrand Co., 1908) (co-author)

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personal data
SURNAME Carpenter, Rolla C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carpenter, Rolla Clinton (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American engineer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Orion
DATE OF DEATH 1919