- Arthur E. Kennelly
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name = Arthur Edwin Kennelly
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birth_date = birth date|1861|12|17
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death_date = death date and age|1939|6|18|1861|12|17
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residence =United States
nationality =India n American
field =Electrical engineering
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awards =IEEE Medal of Honor Arthur Edwin Kennelly (
December 17 ,1861 -June 18 ,1939 ), was anIndia n-Americanelectrical engineer .Biography
Kennelly was born in
Colaba , inSouth Mumbai ,India and was educated atUniversity College School inLondon . He was the son of an Irishnaval officer Captain David Joseph Kennelly (1831-1907) and Catherine Gibson Heycock (1839-1863). His mother died when he was three years old. Afterwards, in 1863, his father retired from the navy and later Arthur and his father returned to England. In 1878, his father remarried to Ellen L.Vivian and moved the family to Sydney, Nova Scotia on the island of Cape Breton when he took over the Sydney and Louisbourg Coal and Railway Company Limited. By his father's second marriage, Arthur gained four half siblings, Zaidia Kennelly in 1881, David J.Kennelly, Jr. in 1882, Nell K.Kennelly in 1883 and Spencer M.Kennelly in 1885.Joined
Thomas Edison 's West Orange laboratory in Dec 1887, staying until March 1894. He formed a consulting firm in electrical engineering withEdwin Houston . Together, they wrote "Alternating Electric Currents" (1895), "Electrical Engineering leaflets" (1896), "Electric arc lighting" (1902).In 1893, during his research in
electrical engineering , he presented a paper on "Impedance" to theAmerican Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE). He researched the use ofcomplex number s as applied toOhm's Law inalternating current circuit theory . In 1902, he investigated theionosphere 'sradio spectrum'selectric al properties. He was a professor of electrical engineering atHarvard University from 1902-1930 and jointly at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology from 1913-1924. One of his PhD students wasVannevar Bush .Kennelly was the recipient of the awards of many nations, including the IEE Institution Premium (1887), the Franklin Institute Howard Potts Gold Medal (1917), the Cross of a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur of France and the AIEE, now IEEE,
Edison Medal (1933) "For meritorious achievements in electrical science, electrical engineering and the electrical arts as exemplified by his contributions to the theory of electrical transmission and to the development of international electrical standards." He was awarded theIRE Medal of Honor in 1932, "For his studies of radio propagation phenomena and his contributions to the theory and measurement methods in the alternating current circuit field which now have extensive radio application." He was an active participant in professional organizations such as the Society for the Promotion of the Metric System of Weights and Measures, the Illuminating Engineering Society and the U.S. National Committee of the International Electrotechnical Commission, and also served as the president of both the AIEE and the Institute of Radio Engineers,IRE , during 1898-1900 and 1916, respectively. Kennelly died inBoston, Massachusetts on18 June 1939 .Books by Arthur E. Kennelly
* See
Edwin Houston for the works co-authored with him.
* with Henry David Wilkinson: [http://www.archive.org/details/practicalnotesfo00kennrich Practical notes for electrical students] (London : "The Electrician" Prtg. & Pub. Co., 1890)
* [http://www.archive.org/details/wirelesstelegrap00kennrich Wireless telegraphy and wireless telephony an elementary treatise] (New York: Moffat, Yard & co., 1913)
* [http://www.archive.org/details/applicationofhyp00kennrich The application of hyperbolic functions to electrical engineering problems; being the subject of a course of lectures delivered before the University of London in May and June 1911] (London, University of London Press, 1912)Patents
* US patent|479167 -- "Electric meter"
* US patent|500236 -- "Electrostatic voltmeter"External links
* IEEE Legacies: [http://www.ieee.org/organizations/history_center/legacies/kennelly.html Arthur E. Kennelly]
* Arthur E. Kennelly, [http://www.ieee.org/organizations/history_center/ IEEE History Center] .
* Katz, Eugenii, [http://www.geocities.com/neveyaakov/electro_science/kennelly.html Arthur Edwin Kennelly] . Biographies of Famous Electrochemists and Physicists Contributed to Understanding of Electricity, Biosensors & Bioelectronics.
* [http://www.j3ea.org/articles/j3ea/full/2006/01/j3ea06058/j3ea06058_fichiers/image053.jpgPhoto of Arthur E. Kennelly]
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