Some leaders of the A. I. E. E.

William B. Jackson, Rate Engineer of The New York Edison Company and a member of the Institute since 1897 (Life Member), was its Manager from 1912 to 1915 and a Vice-President from 1918 to 1919. Coincidently, he was a Manager and Vice-President of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1915; also President of the Western Society of Engineers in 1915. His papers before the Institute and Western Society of Engineers on Advantages of Unified Electric Systems Covering Large Territories, and Hydraulic Developments as Related to Electric Installations were in early presentation of the lines along which electric and power development has since progressed.