Archibald Campbell Adams
Archibald Campbell Adams (1884-1918)
1918 Obituary [1]
ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL ADAMS was born at Paisley on 13th December 1884.
His early education was received at a local school and at Burlington House, Cambridge.
At the age of fourteen he began an apprenticeship as a mechanical and electrical engineer with Paterson, Cooper and Co., and James Kilpatrick and Sons, of Paisley, while he also studied at the Glasgow and Paisley Technical Colleges.
For some years after the expiration of his apprenticeship he undertook various kinds of engineering work until 1908, when he entered into partnership with Mr. A. M. Robertson as consulting engineers in Glasgow. At about this period he devoted his attention to investigating the behaviour and characteristics of the electric motor under various conditions.
He also designed an electric sounding machine which gave very satisfactory results, and brought out a device for automatically governing electrically-driven air-compressors, while he also specialized in mining engineering.
During the period of the War he maintained an active interest in the manufacture of various classes of munitions at the Cartvale Engineering Co., Paisley.
His death took place at Paisley on 30th October 1918, in his thirty-fourth year.
He became an Associate Member of this Institution in 1910; he was also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and a Member of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland.