SMITH E.S.

SMITH E.S. 28.03. 1897 Angola IN/USA 31.12. 1960 Baltimore MD/USA Edward Sinclair Smith graduated from University of California, Berkeley CA, with the BS degree in 1919, and the ME degree in 1932. He was until 1923 a staff member of the Standard Oil Company, the Pacific Gas and Electric Company, and the Shell Petroleum Company, all in California. He moved to the East Coast as assistant chief engineer of Builders Iron Foundry, Providence RI, working as hydraulic engineer, and then as patent engineer. He spent a number of years with a manufacturer at Brooklyn NY, in charge of company patents, and as consultant on flow problems. He was employed from 1940 to 1948 as a research engineer of automatic control in Teterboro NJ, where his work included the development of stabilizing suction relief valves for fighters and superchargers for bombers. In the 1950s he was concerned with the design of porosity meters for parachute fabric, scoops for bomber carburettors and for naval vessels, and essential hydraulic components for the Pearl Harbour dry dock. Finally, he was a scientific and technical adviser, Weapons Systems Laboratory, US Army Ordnance, Aberdeen MD. Smith was a pioneer in fluid metering. One of his achievements was authorship of the book Automatic control engineering, the first of its kind in English. Much of his business activity was as liaison between the engineering and patent fields. He acquired experience with several companies until 1923, then used his knowledge in problems of fluid metering until the War started, when serving for war support. More than a dozen different devices were patented. He was elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1946. He was one of the founders of the ASME Committee on Instruments and Regulators. Earlier, he was the winner of the 1931 ASME Junior Award. He was also a member of the Instrument Society of America. Anonymous (1938). Ed S. Smith. Mechanical Engineering 60(12): 964. P Anonymous (1946). Ed S. Smith. Mechanical Engineering 68(11): 1013. P Anonymous (1961). Ed Sinclair Smith. Mechanical Engineering 83(4): 132. Smith, E.S. (1923). The oil Venturi meter. Trans. ASME 45: 67-75. Smith, E.S. (1930). Quantity-rate fluid meters. Trans. ASME 52(HYD 7b): 89-109. Smith, E.S. (1930). Fluid metering. Mechanical Engineering 52(4): 372-374; 52(11): 968-970. P Smith, E.S. (1934). The V-notch for hot water. Trans. ASME 56(9): 787-789; 57(3): 249-250. Smith, E.S. (1939). Relations involved in metering rate-of-flow. Instruments 12(4): 115-126. Smith, E.S. (1944). Automatic control engineering. McGraw-Hill: New York.