Charles Frederick Smith
Charles Frederick Smith (1873-1947)
1900 Elected ICE
1916 28 Grove Road, Headingley, Leeds.[1]
1922 D.Sc., M.Sc. Tech., M.I.E.E., Assoc.M.Inst.C.E., H.M. Inspector of Schools (Technological Branch), 28, Grove Road, Headingley, Leeds. T. N.: 455 Headingley. Ed. University College, Bristol; Whitworth Scholar. Apprenticed to Sharp, Stewart and Co., Ltd. Engaged with engineering firms in Germany and subsequently with Siemens Brothers and Co., and Ransomes and Rapier, Ltd. Head of Electrical Engineering Department, South Western Polytechnic, Chelsea; Senior Lecturer in Electrical Engineering and Director of Electrical Engineering Laboratories, School of Technology, Manchester (University of Manchester ). Author of " Practical Testing of Dynamos and Motors," " Practical Alternating Current Testing," etc.
1947 Obituary [2]
"CHARLES FREDERICK SMITH, D.Sc., M.Sc. Tech., Wh.Sc., was for many years an inspector of schools (technological branch) and a member of the Joint Committee for National Certificates in Mechanical Engineering from its inception until his retirement in 1933.
He was born in 1873 and received his technical education at Bristol University, where he won an engineering scholarship. Later, while serving his apprenticeship from 1890 to 1894 with Messrs. Sharp Stewart and Company, Ltd., of Glasgow, he obtained a Whitworth Scholarship, which enabled him to study engineering in Germany. In 1896 he joined Messrs. Siemens Brothers and Company, Ltd., at Woolwich, as a draughtsman, subsequently becoming assistant to the head of the research department.
After two years' experience in a similar capacity with the managing director of Messrs. Ransomes and Rapier, Ltd., at the London office, he was appointed head of the electrical engineering department of the South Western Polytechnic, Chelsea. He relinquished this position in 1905 to take up the appointment of director of electrical engineering laboratories and also that of lecturer at the University of Manchester. Eight years later he began his career as an inspector of schools, his first appointment being at Leeds, which was followed later by the post of divisional inspector in the West Midlands. After his retirement Dr. Smith compiled a number of textbooks for use in schools, explaining in simple terms the principles of electricity and other scientific phenomena. He had been a Member of the Institution since 1935 and was also a Member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers. His death occurred on 16th January 1947."
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Sources of Information
- ↑ ICE membership list
- ↑ 1947 Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Obituaries