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Alfred Jacques Makower (9 May 1876 in London – 1 February 1941) was
Alfred Jacques Makower (9 May 1876 in London – 1 February 1941) was electrical engineer
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and community activist. He was head of the Electrical Engineering Department of South-Western Polytechnic
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.
Alfred was the son of a German silk merchant. He attended University College School from 1884, the University College itself in 1894, then Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1895. Here he took the Mathematical Tripos, before moving on to the Technische Hochschule in Charlottenburg (now Technische Universität Berlin), in 1898. Then in 1900 he was given a job by Union-Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft
Union-Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft (UEG) was a German subsidiary of the American Thomson-Houston Electric Company. The subsidiary was established to represent the parent company's interests in Germany, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, the Netherlands, Den ...
(UEG), a subsidiary
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of the Thomson-Houston Electric Company. He then returned to England to work for British Thomson-Houston
British Thomson-Houston (BTH) was a British engineering and heavy industrial company, based at Rugby, Warwickshire, England, and founded as a subsidiary of the General Electric Company (GE) of Schenectady, New York, United States. They were kno ...
Company in 1902. In 1904 he was appointed head of the Electrical Engineering Department of South-Western Polytechnic. In 1913 he became a founding director Mossay and Co., a company established by Paul Mossay Paul Alphonse Hubert Mossay (1877- 25 June 1963, Knutsford) was a Belgian electrical engineer involved in the development of electric vehicles.
Mossay attended grammar school in Verviers and then went to University of Liège, where he gained a deg ...
, along with A. Berkeley and Alfred Mays-Smith Sir Alfred Samuel Mays-Smith was an English car manufacturer. From 1920 to 1922 he was chairman of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. In the 1922 New Year Honours, Mays-Smith was knighted in recognition for important services to the ...
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Alfred was chair of the Professional Committee of the German Jewish Aid Committee, in which capacity he helped several German engineer refugees with financial support and help in finding employment amongst his contacts in the engineering sector. He was vice-president of the Jewish Board of Guardians whose General Relief Committee he also chaired.
He had a son, Ernest S. Makower.
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Makower, Alfred 1876 births 1941 deaths Electrical engineers Technische Universität Berlin alumni