Obituary

Mr. Edgar Woods Mix, a Member of the Institute, was drowned in the English Channel on the evening of November 12. Mr. Mix was born in Columbus, Ohio, on February 4, 1867. He graduated from the Ohio State University in June, 1888, with the degree of B.S. In August of that year he entered the employ of the Thomson-Houston Company, where he did work of various kinds inside and outside of the factory. In July, 1889 he took up the recording watt meter and conducted that department of the Thomson-Houston works until the regular organization of that department in May 1890. In August 1890 he went to Paris in connection with a watt-hour meter contest and established a factory there for building watt-hour meters for the Thomson-Houston International ElecElectric Company. He occupied the position of chief engineer of this firm until the first of November, when he resigned to become manager of the European division of the General Motors and Export Company. Mr. Mix became an Associate of the Institute on September 3, 1889, and was transferred to the grade of Member on March 20, 1895. Mr. Mix was also interested in aeronautics, and won the race for the Coupe Internationale des Aeronautes by flying from Zurich, Switzerland, on October 5, 1909, to a point near Warsaw, 696 miles, and he had been chosen delegate to the international aviation conference which opened in Rome on November 25, 1911. Mr. Mix was unmarried.