George Fillmore Swain (March 2, 1857 – July 1, 1931) was a civil engineer from the United States. He was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and later at Harvard University.
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| Born | March 2, 1857 |
| Died | July 1, 1931 (aged 74) |
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| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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| Discipline | Civil engineering |
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Biography
editHe was graduated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1877 and then studied in Berlin, German Empire, for three years. On his return to the United States, he settled in Boston. In 1887 he became professor of civil engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which was then located in Boston. He remained at MIT until 1909, when he became professor of civil engineering at the Harvard Graduate School of Applied Science. He also served as consulting engineer of the Massachusetts Railroad Commission, and in 1894 became a member of the Boston Transit Commission, becoming its chairman in 1913.
Works
edit- Notes on Hydraulics (1885)
- “Report on the Water Power of the Atlantic Watershed” in Vol. XVII of the Tenth United States Census
- Notes on Theory of Structures (1893)
- . Popular Science Monthly. Vol. 57. July 1900.
- Conservation of Water by Storage (1915)
- How to Study (1917)[1]
Notes
editThis article includes a list of references, related reading, or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. (July 2013) |
- ^ Swain, George Fillmore. How to Study. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
via: Project Gutenberg
References
edit- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). . Encyclopedia Americana.
- Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
- William Hovgaard (1936). "Biographical memoir of George Fillmore Swain 1857-1931" (PDF). Biographical Memoirs. XVII. Fourteenth Memoir. National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
External links
editArchives and records
edit- George F. Swain papers at Baker Library Special Collections, Harvard Business School.