FANNING

FANNING 31.12. 1837 Norwich CT/USA 06.02. 1911 Minneapolis MN/USA John Thomas Fanning studied architecture until 1858 perfecting himself in building construction. He began the general engineering practice in 1862, opening an office at Norwich CT, thereby working for city projects until 1870. Until 1880 Fanning was engaged as chief engineer for water works including Manchester NH, to where he moved his office. In 1880, he was called to New York City to report on the adequate public water supply for all cities in the Hudson Valley. This project included an aqueduct 350 km long with a capacity of one billion gallons of water per day. In 1885 Fanning prepared plans to develop water power of the St. Anthony Falls on the Mississippi River at Minneapolis MN. He was in parallel a consulting engineer of the Upper Red River Valley Drainage Commission, conducting a detailed topographic survey and reporting on the drainage of more than 6,000 km2 prairie land. Fanning is still known for a formula describing pipe flow. It is essentially the DarcyWeisbach formula in which the Fanning resistance coefficient corresponds to one forth of Darcy-Weisbach’s. He was awarded in 1883 from the New England Agricultural Society its highest prize for architectural and engineering designs. He also secured patents for a water-wheel, a turbine motor valve, a steam boiler, a steam pumping engine to improve fire-proof building construction, and other designs for hydraulic apparatus. He was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Besides his still known book, Fanning published reports in technical matters. He died at his home at Minneapolis from an attack of pneumonia after an illness of ten days. Anonymous (1887). Fanning, J.T. Appletons’ cyclopaedia of American biography 2: 406-407. Anonymous (1911). John Thomas Fanning. Engineering News 65(7): 214; 65(11): 333. Anonymous (1911). Col. John T. Fanning. Engineering Record 63(7): 74. Anonymous (1972). Fanning, John T. A biographical dictionary of American civil engineers: 41-42. ASCE: New York. Fanning, J.T. (1877). A practical treatise on hydraulic and water-supply engineering. van Nostrand: New York, with re-editions in 1887 and 1902. Fanning, J.T. (1889). Report on the Winnipeg water power of the Assiniboine River in Manitoba. McIntyre: Winnipeg. Fanning, J.T. (1906). Water supply engineering. van Nostrand: Princeton NJ. Rouse, H. (1976). Fanning. Hydraulics in the USA 1776-1976: 57. University of Iowa: Iowa. P

FARLEY 30.03. 1863 Fort Plain NY/USA 26.08. 1932 White Plains NY/USA John Moyer Farley graduated in 1886 from Rutgers University, New Brunswick NJ, with the BS degree, and in 1889 received from there the MS degree in civil engineering. He then designed extensions of a sewerage system at New Brunswick. From 1889 he was engaged as assistant engineer on general canal work for New York State. As principal assistant to John Bogart (1836-1920) he then planned sewerage systems in New York State. In 1890 he made flow measurements for streams feeding into the Genesee Valley, and run-off measurements on the Seneca and Cayuga Lakes watershed. From 1892 to 1900 he had joined a firm for which he superintended the construction of the extension to the sewerage system of White Plains. He thus served as engineer for the Board of Water Commissioners for White Plains from its organization in 1886 until 1911, having charge of the design and construction of all its improvements to the water supply system, including dams, reservoirs and filter plants. From 1904 to 1906 Farley was in partnership with Edward Wegmann (1850-1935) under the name Wegmann & Farley, engaged in general consulting for reservoirs and dams. Farley had in this period charge of an extension of the sewerage system at Ballston Spa NY. He was employed by the Board of Water Commissioners from 1907 to 1908 to report on a proposed source of water supply for Batavia NY. He also designed the sewer system for Mount Kisco NY, which was completed in 1913, and for Mount Vernon NY, completed in 1910. During this time, as chief engineer, he handled some of the most important water power and water supply cases against New York City in the Ashokan Reservoir condemnation proceedings. He designed the intercepting filter wells and stand-pipe in 1910 for the Board of Water Commissioners at White Plains. From 1913 to 1921 he served as consulting engineer on improvements to the plant and dam of the Water Company, New Castle NY. From 1921 until his death he was engaged in general consulting work on surveys, dams, and reservoir construction. His wide professional knowledge in applied science and engineering was important toward the betterment of life in the many communities in which he worked. He was since 1897 a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers ASCE. Anonymous (1933). John M. Farley. Trans. ASCE 98: 1541-1545. Farley, J.M. (1930). City of White Plains and environs. White Plains NY. https://www.cccellc.com/History.html P