Dr. Bernard Price, OBE, (1877 – 9 July 1948)[1] was the founding Chief Engineer and later General Manager of the Victoria Falls and Transvaal Power Company in South Africa between 1911 and 1936.[2]
Background
editPrice was born in England, in 1877 and was employed by the consulting engineers Merz & McLellan from 1901 until leaving for Transvaal Colony in 1909.[3] He was President of the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers in 1915, and was awarded Honorary Life Membership of the SAIEE in 1940.[4] Dr Price was a benefactor of the University of the Witwatersrand, being instrumental in the founding of the Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research. The annual Bernard Price Memorial Lecture, named in his honour, is hosted by the SAIEE and the University of the Witwatersrand.
References
edit- ^ Dart, Raymond A. (28 October 2009). "The Adult Female Lower Jaw from Makapansgat". American Anthropologist. 56 (5): 884–888. doi:10.1525/aa.1954.56.5.02a00160.
- ^ "Obituary: Betty Price". EE Publishers. 2006. Archived from the original on 6 October 2006. Retrieved 4 April 2010.
- ^ "About - Company Information". Heritage.eskom.co.za. Archived from the original on 25 August 2012. Retrieved 31 December 2012.
- ^ Crouch, M: The First Ten Decades, Chris van Rensburg Publications, 2009, ISBN 0-86846-110-5