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phcnolllcna of alternating Cll rrcnts. l\ fr. Coley is an associate member of the I\llleri can ln stitllte of I ~lcctrjcal Engineers, and ;1 membel' of the Mohall'k Lacrosse Cluh, of Schenectady, ~ . Y. LTe is also a !1lemher 01" the Thcta .,\i iratertlity and an honorary member of the society of Sigma Xi of Union Uniycrsity.
Colles, George Wetmore (lIf.I~ .. '9-1), was horn in Nell' York city February lei, 1871; son of (;corge Wetmore and JlIlia J"ccse Colles. Ilcfore clltering Stel'ens In stitute h e received the degrce of Bachelor of .\rts at Yale Unil'crsity in 1892, and in J900 hc took the degree of Master of Science at COIUlll bian LTni\'ersity, \\'ashington. ITis occupations sincc graduation hal'c hccn: machinist In the Ilol1okcn shops of the l'enn~I ' 1
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"ania I~ailroad Co .. suhscrjtlenlly hecoming riraughtslll<ln and designer, J89-1- 95: in the shops 01" thc \\ ' ,' st in ghouse Electric & :\I<ln ufaCluring Co., Pittsburg, 1'a .. 1895-96: L'n gaged in dCleluping a nell' process for ekctrolysis o[ salt, Boston, Mass., 1896: c1raughtslll<ln and designcr II'ith Stonc & \ \' ebstcr, i\ 1assacilusd ts Electrical Engincering Co ., 1896- 97; engineer in the isolated lighting departlllent of the Edison Electric Tlluminating Co., Boston, J897- 99; assistant examiner of patents, 1899- 1901; engincer for the Crabtree Creek Mica Co., of 1\orth
Carolina, II itil ol/ices at \\ ' asilington, D.C., 1900- 01; 11lechanical engineer and chief of the technical force ()[ the lirm of 11arion & :\larion, :\Iontrcal, Canada, 1902 until reccntly; and he has \lOll' an ofiice as consulting c\lgi\l ecr in :\[ilw;tukcc, \Vis. Por about t 110 years, I R97 99, he II as corrcspondcnt 0 f the i<.uilroud C;lI ::;cl/c. :\ Ir. ('olles was grantcd it patcnt in ]895 f()r :tn elect ric rl'gulator,- a g(lI'Crnor for primc \1111\'crs dri I'ing dynamos and for sOllle other JlurpWies. lie has other patents pending. i \n article on .. The Distance of thc ~tars by Doppler's I'rin cipk," hy ;\[r. Colles, ;Ippcared in the .ilJl<'ricIIII.lullrlfrll 0/ Scicllce, .\pril, 1893. It consisted of a IlCII" method of calculating stellar di,.;tanct' s and in\'ol\'ed higher mathematics, thc theory of mcan \'al lies and of probahility; by its application the mean distance 01" <)S stars is gil'Cn as from ~o (0 ISO ligh( -Yl'ars. II I' Jlllhiish,'<l .. Opporlllllities for Improl'Clllent in 1\ 1ica-;\[ining" in (he lillgilltcrillp: Jlog(/ ::; illc, I'cbruary, 1902. Ili s gr;ldliation thcsis at Slel'ens In stitlltc II'as "RcporL of a Test on a Nell" Dcsign of I~kclric Railway 1'0\\"l'\" Station," preparcci j(lintly with 11 r. I ~. H. (;;t1laher. This thesis was all'arded lirst prize in the filLgillccrillg .\'C路:,IS thesis competition 01' J~9-1, and II'as jJuhlishul in (hat jourtl:tl :\Iarch 7, J895. J Ie presenlcd a paper, Decemiler, J896, entitled" The :'Iletric \ -crslls the Duodecimal Systenl," t(l (hc llleeting of the , \lllerican Society of l\ lechanieal EngiIII'ns; this papcr \\'as lavorahll' noticed hI' thc engincering jourtlals of (his 'collntry, and by J~llgillccrillg of London. Ili s thesis for the l\laster of Science degree was" Eotar) TransforJ1lcrs,"- thc lirst cOlllplete treatmcni o[ the suiJjl'd,- pliblished hy the .Iullrllal of Ille Fnlllklill 111Slillllc, lI larch, July, 1901. \1 r. Collcs is a lnelllhcr of the ,\Illerican SoI'il'ly of l\lecltallical Enginecrs, amI of tlte I'hi neta Kappa fratcrtlity, of Yale. lie was formerly an associate nlcillber o[ the .\lllcrican Institltte o[ I ~k<.: trieal Engincers.
Collins, C. R. (l\I.E., '86), a[ter gradu ating, elltnl'd the sen' icc of the United Cas Improl'C11ll'nl Co .. 11hi1ar1clphia. as draughtsIllan. During thc lirst year he was detailed to carryon thc first lcsts of the original inI'cstigation of the \\'c1shach incandescent lamp, which later ill the year \Vas brought