Addams Stratton McAllister, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Addams Stratton McAllister

American electrical engineer and editor

Date of Birth: 24-Feb-1875

Place of Birth: Covington, Virginia, United States

Date of Death: 26-Nov-1946

Profession: engineer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Addams Stratton McAllister, Ph.D.
(24 February 1875 in Covington, Va., USA – 26 November 1946 in Clifton Forge, Va.) was an American electrical engineer and editor. He was educated at Pennsylvania State College (B.S.
1898; E.E., 1900) and at Cornell (M.M.E., 1901; Ph.D., 1905). He was employed by the Berwind-White Coal Mining Company in 1898 and by the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company in 1899.
He was associate editor (1905–12) and thereafter editor of the Electrical World.
He contributed many articles on engineering subjects to technical publications.
In 1915 he was president of the Illuminating Engineering Society.
He wrote: Alternating Current Motors (1906; third edition, 1909) Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers (1907) The Descendants of John Thomson