| Description |
viii, 96 pages including frontispiece : illustrations, portraits, facsimile ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Contents: Chapter One. ANCESTRY: Samuel-Pioneer; Samuel-Farmer; Ephraim-Tanner; Samuel-Inn-Keeper; Samuel-Tanner; Eli-The Clockmaker; Eli Jr.,-Clockmaker; James-Manufacturer -- Chapter Two. EARLY LIFE: Boyhood days; College activities; Young family life -- Chapter Three. BUSINESS BEGINNINGS: Water Meters; Hartford Meter Company; New Terry Homes; Phenix Brass Foundry Co. -- Chapter Four. FARMINGTON RIVER POWER COMPANY: A Pioneer Undertaking; "Oil City"; Agreement for Power Sale; Company Incorporated; Current Delivery Begun; Vindication; "Notable Pioneer Work"; Scientific American Description; First Lighting Experience; The Road to the Plant; New Power Contracts; House Organ Description; Electrical Magazine Publicity; Power House Burned; Capitalization and New Officers; Electric Light Contract Terminated; New Development and $1,000,000 plant; use of Hydro-electrics; The Water Mill. -- Chapter Five. AGAIN A PIONEER STEAM TURBINES: The New Invention; More Experimental Work; First Installation; incorporation and Expansion; Death of M r. Terry; Terry Company Booklet. -- Chapter Six. TRIBUTES: Hartford Courant article; Hartford Times excerpt; Minutes of The Farmington River Power Company; Tributes; American Society of Civil Engineers; Luther W. Burt; Henry B. Sargent; James Sheperd; Intimate Friend. -- Chapter Seven. HARTFORD HOSPITAL MEMORIAL: Hartford Courant. -- Chapter Eight. JAMES TERRY: The Power Company; Navy Takes up Turbines; New Building and Growth; Perfected Turbine Wheel; Untimely Death; Life History; Newspaper Accounts. -- Chapter Nine. THE TERRY STEAM TURBINE COMPANY: New Management; Stability of Products; Terry Turbine Advantages; High Praise Sustaining Patent; Another Tragedy and New Management; Axial Flow Impulse Type; Multi-Stage turbine; Reduction Gears; Terry Turbine in Marine Service; and now,Terry Gas Turbines; Unspoken but Living Tribute. |
| Subject |
Terry, Edward Clinton, 1850-1908.
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