Obituary

Arthur Clarke Eastwood, Fel. A. I. E. E., President of the Electric Controller and Manufacturing Company, of Cleveland, Ohio, died October 17, 1916 at Battle Creek, Michigan. Mr. Eastwood received his early education in the public schools of Louisville, Kentucky, and his technical education at the Rose Polytechnic Institute, from which he was graduated in 1898. Soon after he entered the electrical department of the Homestead Steel Works, and was associated with Mr. A. C. Dinkey in the first extensive applications of electrical power in the manufacture of steel. He left Homestead to accept the position of electrical engineer for the mills of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railway Company, then building at Ensley, Alabama. He was then asked to come to Cleveland to accept the positions of electrical engineer for the Wellman-Seaver Engineering Company and chief engineer for the newly formed Electric Controller and Supply Company. As a result of Mr. Eastwood´s inventive ability, the growth of the latter company was so rapid that he was soon forced to give the business his entire attention, under the title of general manager and chief engineer. About 1905 Mr. Eastwood and his associates reorganized the company, and the firm name was changed to the Electric Controller and Manufacturing Company, with Mr. Eastwood as active head of both the financial and engineering phases of the business. He was the patentee of nearly one hundred inventions, covering all phases of electrical control and power generation. One of his most important achievements was the lifting magnet. The development of this appliance, which has saved the steel industry many millions of dollars, was entirely Mr. Eastwood´s work. His inventive ability, while great, was less of a factor in his success than his winning personality and strong character, which enabled him to build up an organization of devoted and loyal assistants. Mr. Eastwood was first elected to membership in the Institute as an Associate on M- rch 27, 1903, and was transferred to the grade of Fellow April 9, 1913.