Frederick Remsen Hutton, M.E., Sc.D. (1853 –

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May 14, 1918) was an American mechanical engineer, consulting engineer, educator, editor of the ''

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'' and president of the

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in the year 1907–08.

Biography

Hutton was born in

, graduated from Columbia College in 1873, and from

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in 1876. He was employed there in several positions until he retired in 1907. Columbia gave him the honorary degree of Sc.D. in 1904. In 1892 he became associate editor of the ''

''. From 1883 to 1906 he was secretary of the

; and he became president of the organization in 1907. In 1911 he was consulting engineer for the department of water, gas, and electricity of

, and he served as chairman of the technical committee of the

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for many terms. He wrote reports on machine tools for the census of 1880 and multiple books. Sinclair and Hull (1980) reflected, that "Frederick Hutton was eager to have the Society also determine a standard for rating steam-boiler capability, and observed 'it is part of our duty, no doubt, to establish gauges and standards.'33 In the drive to rationalize American industry that began to gather force in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, standardization was to the engineer what administration was to the manager. Within the technologically complex mechanical industries, especially, the creation of standard parts and uniform practices gave the engineer control over anomaly."Bruce Sinclair and James P. Hullin, ''A Centennial History of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers'' 1980, p. 50.

Publications, a selection

* Frederick Remsen Hutton,
Mechanical Engineering of Power Plants
' (1897; third edition, 1909); * Frederick Remsen Hutton,
Heat and Heat Engines
' (1899); * Frederick Remsen Hutton,
The Gas-Engine
' (1903; third edition, 1908). * Frederick Remsen Hutton,
A history of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers from 1880 to 1915
'' 1915

References

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