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ELLIOTT 08.06. 1850 Lowell IL/USA 14.09. 1926 Washington DC/USA Charles Gleason Elliott received the BS degree in 1877 from the University of Illinois, Urbana IL, and the civil engineering degree in 1893. He was first engaged in general engineering practice, including drainage engineering in the North Central States, and in geological studies in the West. He was in 1884 appointed sanitary engineer at Indianapolis IN to study its drainage and sewerage schemes. From 1887 to 1889 he was drainage engineer in Iroquois County IL on the drainage of 16,000 acres of land. He was engaged in private practice in a similar position in Illinois State from 1890 to 1901, thereby preparing the first Bulletin on agricultural drainage issues by the US Department of Agriculture USDA. He entered in 1902 government service as drainage expert, later taking over as chief of the Drainage Investigations, in the Office of Experiment Stations USDA, where he continued to work until 1913. He was commissioned by the Secretary of Agriculture in 1908 to visit Europe, to study its land drainage, with a particular reference to the drainage of turf and peat lands in Holland, England and Germany. He also reported on plans for the drainage of Minnesota and prairie lands in Canada, thereby developing the methods then generally used in the arid regions of the West for draining irrigated lands, thus saving many irrigation projects from apparent failure. After 1913 Elliott was engaged in private practice as a consulting drainage engineer, and thereby was member of the Elliott-Harman Engineering Company, with offices at Peoria IL, Memphis TN, and Washington DC. He authored various books relating to drainage engineering, including Practical farm drainage, Engineering for land drainage, or Drainage of farm lands. He also presented a notable paper at the meeting of the International Engineering Congress at San Francisco CA in 1915 on The drainage as a correlative of irrigation. Elliott therefore was a pioneer in agricultural drainage who was recognized as a leading American authority in that engineering branch. He was member of the American Society of Civil Engineers ASCE, the Illinois Society of Engineers, and of the Washington Society of Engineers. Anonymous (1926). Charles G. Elliott. Engineering News-Record 97(13): 521. Anonymous (1927). Elliott, Charles G. Trans. ASCE 91: 1077-1078. Elliott, C.G. (1908). Practical farm drainage: A manual for farmer and student. Wiley: New York. Elliott, C.G. (1911). Engineering for land drainage. Wiley: New York. https://www.google.ch/imgres?q=%22Charles+G.+Elliott%22+1850 P

ELLIS G.H. 18.07. 1884 Mason MI/USA 24.04. 1975 Butte MT/USA George Henry Ellis received the degrees BS in 1907 and CE in 1912, respectively, from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI. From 1907 to 1920 he rose from rodman to assistant engineer within the US Reclamation Service. Until 1923 he was then a hydrographer of Montana State, joining then Harza Engineering, Chicago IL, on the construction of Dix Dam and the Lock 7 Power Plant in Kentucky, and Devils River Plants in Texas. He was also engaged with stream measurements on Kentucky River and exploration works of the South Fork damsite. From 1929 Ellis was in charge of the Montana Power Company, Butte MT. He was an associate member of the American Society of Civil Engineers from 1914, and later became Member ASCE. Ellis was one of the irrigation engineers not only working in the field but also advancing the profession by technical developments. He, as many others, presented tables to facilitate uniform flow computations in circular and horseshoe profiles, he proposed a car to attach to calibrate flow meters in well-designed channels as used by the US Geological Survey from 1911, he described the typical flow features in irrigation channels for uniform flow based on both laboratory and prototype observations, and he investigated the flow features of drops, involving a complex air-water flow. Moreover, he designed and partly constructed dams in the West of the USA, including Shoshone Dam in Wyoming, or Sun River Dam in Montana. The University of Wyoming also holds a scrapbook with poems of Ellis written between 1944 and 1962. Anonymous (1941). Ellis, George Henry. Who’s who in engineering 5: 525. Lewis: New York. Anonymous (2009). G.H. Ellis. American Heritage Center. University of Wyoming: Laramie. P Ellis, G.H. (1915). Tables of circular and horse-shoe conduit sections. Engineering News 73(24): 1182-1183. Ellis, G.H. (1916). The flow of water in irrigation channels. Trans. ASCE 80: 1644-1688. Ellis, G.H. (1917). Hydraulic and excavation tables. Department of the Interior, US Reclamation Service. Government Printing Office: Washington DC. Ellis, G.H. (1920). Car for current-meter gaging stations. Engineering News-Record 84(2): 80. Ellis, G.H. (1920). Hydraulics of the intake to a pipe drop. Engineering News-Record 85(12): 565. Ellis, G.H. (1923). Flood flows or maximum runoffs of Montana streams. Engineering News-Record 91(25): 1016-1017.