Edmund Bruce Ball
Edmund Bruce Ball FRSE (21 May 1873 – 17 June 1944) was an English hydraulic engineer.[1] He specialised in the storage and distribution of water.
Life
He was born in Thetford in Norfolk. He was educated in Thetford and then apprenticed as an engineer to Charles Burrell & Sons in that towns. His talent won him a scholarship to study engineering at Manchester School of Technology.[2]
He had a very successful career, starting as Chief Designer for Benjamin Goodfellow & Co in Hyde, Manchester. Thereafter he served as Works Manager for Reavell & Co in Ipswich, Technical Director for San Georgio Co in Genoa, Technical Director for Samuel & Co Ltd in Shanghai and Manchuria, Works Manager at D Napier & Son in Acton, and Managing Director of Glenfield & Kennedy in Kilmarnock.[3] His last position also gave him control of two subsidiary companies: British Pitometer and Hydrautomat.
He served as President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers from 1939 to 1940.[4] He was also President of the Institute of Water Engineers. He was an Honorary Life Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
He died of a heart attack at his home, Eldo House, in Monkton, Ayrshire.
References
- ^ "Former RSE Fellows 1783-2002" (PDF). Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 31 March 2010.
- ^ http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Edmund_Bruce_Ball
- ^ http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf
- ^ Lane (1971), p. 232
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