Storm Bull (October 20, 1856November 17, 1907) was a

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immigrant, engineer, and educator. He was the 33rd mayor of

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Biography

Storm Bull was born in

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. He was a nephew of the violinist

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. He was educated at the Polytechnic Institute in Zurich, Switzerland, where he graduated with a degree in engineering in 1877. He first arrived in

, in 1879, where became a professor in the engineering department of the

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. He was subsequently appointed a professor in mechanical engineering and later professor in steam engineering. Bull held memberships in the Western Society of Engineers, American Society for Engineering Education and the

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. He also served as mayor of Madison, Wisconsin, for one term, from April 1901 to April 1902. He was a Unitarian. Bull died of stomach cancer in Madison in 1907.

References

Other sources

*Howe, Charles S. (ed) (1909) "Papers, Reports, Discussions, etc." of the ''Journal of Engineering Education'' (Brooklyn, NY: Pratt Institution. Volume 16. page 407)

External links

Portrait of Professor Storm Bull, University of Wisconsin
1856 births 1907 deaths Norwegian emigrants to the United States Mayors of Madison, Wisconsin American mechanical engineers University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty Engineers from Bergen ETH Zurich alumni Burials at Forest Hill Cemetery (Madison, Wisconsin) 20th-century mayors of places in Wisconsin {{Wisconsin-mayor-stub