George Fillmore Swain
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George Fillmore Swain (2 March 1857, San Francisco, California - 1 July 1931) was a civil engineer from the USA. He was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and later at Harvard University.
Biography
He was graduated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1877 and then studied in Berlin, Germany, for three years. On his return to the United States, he settled in Boston. In 1887 he became professor of civil engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which was then located in Boston. He remained at MIT until 1909, when he became professor of civil engineering at the Harvard Graduate School of Applied Science. He also served as consulting engineer of the Massachusetts Railroad Commission, and in 1894 became a member of the Boston Transit Commission, becoming its chairman in 1913.
Works
- Notes on Hydraulics (1885)
- “Report on the Water Power of the Atlantic Watershed” in Vol. XVII of the Tenth United States Census
- Notes on Theory of Structures (1893)
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- Conservation of Water by Storage (1915)
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References
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External links
- Works by George Fillmore Swain at Project Gutenberg
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- Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from Popular Science Monthly
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- Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the New International Encyclopedia
- Articles with Internet Archive links
- 1857 births
- 1931 deaths
- American civil engineers
- People from Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty
- Harvard University faculty