Abstract :
Lewis Taylor Robinson, Engineer in Charge of the General Engineering Laboratory, General Electric Company, at Schenectady, New York, Associate Member of the Institute 1904, Fellow 1912, Manager 1913–16 and Vice-President 1916–17, 1920–21, was born in Springfield, Mass., October 20, 1868. At the age of seventeen he joined the Thomson-Houston Electric Company at Lynn and was presently put in charge of the Standardizing Laboratory inaugurated by that Company. From that day to this he has grown with the electrical industry, primarily in shaping its standards and in initiating new developments. Union University conferred the degree of Doctor of Science on him in 1929 as “a student in the truest sense of the word.”