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

Charles Waterman Stone, Consulting Engineer for the General Electric Company, a Manager of the Institute 1908–1911, and one of its Vice-Presidents 1911–1913, was born in Providence, Rhode Island, Dec. 24, 1874. He attended the public schools in Providence and the West, and later, the University of Kansas for three and a half years. In 1894 he joined the Franklin Electric Company, of Kansas City, but two years later he returned to the East to become machinist for the W. S. Hill Electric Company, of New Bedford, Massachusetts. Where he was shortly advanced to engineer in charge. In 1899 he was chosen superintendent of construction for the Hancock Equipment Company, of Boston, of which he remained a member until he joined the General Electric Company later in that same year. His advancement was steady; starting in the Drafting Department, he was soon made assistant engineer of the Lighting Department; then engineer in charge of the Consulting Engineering Department, manager of the Lighting Department, and finally, manager of the Central Station Department, leading to his ultimate appointment as consulting engineer, his present capacity with the company. He is also consulting engineer for the RCA Photophone Company, Inc., devoting his time wholly to engineering subjects.