Abstract :
Frederick Bedell, member of the Institute since 1892, Manager 1914–17, and Vice-President 1917–18, was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., April 1868. After an undergraduate Arts course at Yale, he took graduate courses in science, engineering and mathematics at Cornell University, receiving the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and joining the instructing staff in 1892. In 1893 he was appointed Assistant Professor of Physics, and, in 1904, Professor of Applied Electricity, a position he still holds.