Fred J. Miller (January 3, 1857 – November 26, 1939) [1] was an American mechanical and industrial engineer, known for his seminal work in designing high-precision scientific instruments, [2] and as President of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1920-21.
Born in Yellow Springs, Ohio in 1857, Miller was the eldest son of son of John Z. Miller and Elizabeth (Woodhurst) Miller. [2] His father was a skilled general mechanic, who worked as contractor. [3] After his public school education, Miller became a regular apprentice at a machine shop.
Yellow Springs is a village in Greene County, Ohio, United States. The population was 3,487 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Dayton Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is home of Antioch College and Antioch University Midwest.
Miller started his career as toolmaker at the firm of Benjamin H. Warder in Springfield, Ohio, and worked his way up to foreman. He started to invent tools and devices for the machine tool industry contribute to mechanical journals, of which some became used in leading manufacturers. [4] Also he started to write articles, and in 1887 became full-time editor of the American Machinist machinery journal, editor-in-chief, and eventually vice-president of the publisher. [5]
Benjamin Head Warder was an American manufacturer of agricultural machinery. In 1902, the company he co-founded merged with four others to form International Harvester.
The American Machinist is an American trade magazine of the international machinery industries and most especially their machining aspects. Published since 1877, it was a McGraw-Hill title for over a century before becoming a Penton title in 1988. In 2013 it transitioned from combined print/online publication to online-only.
After twenty years in the publishing business, he returned to industry as general manager of typewriter factory. After nine years he was appointed Major of Ordnance at the U.S. Army at the Rock Island Arsenal, the Arsenals in Washington, and rolled into the staff of the Secretary of War. [6]
Miller was president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in the year 1920-21, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and recipient of the Gantt Medal. [3]
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is an American international non-profit organization with the stated goals of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific responsibility, and supporting scientific education and science outreach for the betterment of all humanity. It is the world's largest general scientific society, with over 120,000 members, and is the publisher of the well-known scientific journal Science, which had a weekly circulation of 138,549 in 2008.
He died in Trenton, New Jersey on November 26, 1939.
Trenton is the capital city of the U.S. state of New Jersey and the county seat of Mercer County. it briefly served as the capital of the United States in 1784. The city's metropolitan area is grouped with the New York metropolitan area by the United States Census Bureau, but it directly borders the Philadelphia metropolitan area and is part of the Philadelphia Combined Statistical Area and the Federal Communications Commission's Philadelphia Designated Market Area. As of the 2010 United States Census, Trenton had a population of 84,913, making it the state's tenth most populous municipality. The Census Bureau estimated that the city's population was 84,034 in 2014.
John Edson Sweet was an American mechanical engineer, inventor, professor, business man and president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1884-85. He is known for building the first micrometer caliper in 1873, for making tools, and for inventing the “straight line” engine.
A machine shop is a room, building, or company where machining is done, which is a form of subtractive manufacturing. In a machine shop, machinists use machine tools and cutting tools to make parts, usually of metal or plastic. A machine shop can be a small business or a portion of a factory, whether a toolroom or a production area for manufacturing. The parts produced can be the end product of the factory, to be sold to customers in the machine industry, the car industry, the aircraft industry, or others. In other cases, companies in those fields have their own machine shops.
Leon Pratt Alford was an American mechanical engineer, organizational theorist, and administrator for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. known for his seminal work in the field of industrial management.
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Carl Georg Lange Barth was a Norwegian-American mathematician, mechanical and consulting engineer, and lecturer at Harvard University. Barth is known as one of the foreman of scientific management, who improved and popularized the industrial use of compound slide rules.
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