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Herbert Bristol Dwight

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Herbert Bristol Dwight (8 September 1885, Geneva, Illinois – 30 June 1975) was an American-Canadian electrical engineer.[1]

Dwight was educated in elementary and secondary schools in Ontario, attended Toronto University for two years, and then attended McGill University, graduating there in 1909 with a B.Sc. in electrical engineering. He developed a method for calculating the skin effect resistance ratio of a tubular conductor[1][2] and derived formulas for mutual inductance of coils with parallel axes, repulsion of coils with parallel axes, and self-inductance of long cylindrical coils.[3]

He was an Invited Speaker at the ICM in Toronto in 1924.[4]

Selected publications

  • Transmission line formulas for electrical engineers and engineering students. 1913.
  • Constant-voltage transmission; a discussion of the use of synchronous motors for eliminating variation in voltage in electric power systems. 1915.
  • Transmission line formulas; a collection of methods of calculation for the electrical design of transmission lines. 1925.
  • Tables of integrals and other mathematical data. 1934.
  • Electrical coils and conductors, their electrical characteristics and theory. 1945.
  • Electrical elements of power transmission lines. 1954.

References

  1. ^ a b "Dwight, Herbert Bristol". Who's Who in Engineering: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries 1922–1923. Vol. Vol. 1. p. 394. {{cite book}}: |volume= has extra text (help)
  2. ^ Dwight, Herbert B. (1918). "Skin effect in tubular and flat conductors". American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Transactions of the. 37 (2): 1379–1403. doi:10.1109/T-AIEE.1918.4765575.
  3. ^ Dwight, H. B. (1919). "Some new formulas for reactance coils". American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Transactions of the. 38 (2): 1675–1696. doi:10.1109/T-AIEE.1919.4765652.
  4. ^ Dwight, H. B. "A new formula for use in calculating repulsion of coaxial coils" (PDF). In: Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Toronto, August 11–16. 1924. Vol. vol. 2. pp. 461–464. {{cite book}}: |volume= has extra text (help)
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