Abstract :
John Castlereagh Parker, Vice-President in charge of Engineering, Brooklyn Edison Company, Inc., Associate Member of the Institute 1904, Fellow 1912, and Vice-President 1920–21, was born in Detroit, Michigan, April 15, 1879. In 1901 he was graduated with the degree of B. S. in M. E. at the University of Michigan receiving his A. M. there in 1902 for advanced work in mathematics, physics and structural engineering. In 1904 the university granted him an E. E. for work done in absentia, his dissertation being “A Physical Concept of Dynamo Electric Machines.”