Obituary

Ernst Danielson died in Westeras, Sweden, in August last. He was born January 19, 1866, in Voxna; studied at Upsala, and, in 1883, was admitted as apprentice at the Arboga works of the Stockholm Electrical Co. In 1884 he entered the Technical High School at Stockholm, returning, after passing his final examinations in 1887, to the Arboga works. He came to the United States in 1890 and was first associated with the Wenström Consolidated Dynamo and Motor Co. of Baltimore, and afterwards with the Thomson-Houston Co., of Lynn, Mass, which later consolidated with the Edison Co., of Schenectady, forming the present General Electric Co., where he carried out a large amount of exceedingly responsible work. In 1892 he was chief engineer of the Allmanna Svenska Elektriska Aktiebolaget, of Westeras, Sweden. In 1895 he left that company to take up a consulting engineering practice in Sweden; preparing at the request of Dr. De Laval, proposals for utilizing the water power of the Trollhattan Falls. During the winter of 1897–8, Mr. Danielson again visited America, also most of the prominent electrical installations of Switzerland and Italy. In 1900 he was appointed Technical Director of the Allmanna Svenska Elektriska Aktiebolaget of Westeras, Sweden, cocupying this position until 1903, when failing health compelled him to delegate most of his work to others. Mr. Danielson was also for some time chairman of the Swedish Institution of Civil Engineers; a member of the Royal Academy of Science, a member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers of Great Britain. He was elected an Associate of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, June 27, 1895.