WESTON E.B.

WESTON E.B. 25.03. 1850 Duxbury MA/USA 09.12. 1916 Boston MA/USA Edmund Brownell Weston received education from the Highland Military Academy, Worcester MA. He was then a student in the office of the chief engineer of the Providence Water Works from 1871 to 1874. Until 1877 he served as an assistant engineer, from when he was a design engineer in charge of the Providence Water Department. From then he was a consulting engineer at Providence RI. Weston was a member of ASCE, the Institution of Civil Engineers London UK, the Boston Society of Civil Engineers, and the New England Meteorological Society. He also corporated closely with various departments of Brown University, Providence RI. He was a Fellow of Imperial College, London UK. Weston conducted filter experiments for his city in 1893, which demonstrated the high efficiency of mechanical filtration for purification of municipal water supplies. He then designed filtration systems of up to 350 liters per second in many cities of the USA, India, and Austria. He also constructed an experimental plant for the city of Alexandria, Egypt. He has written several books next to journal papers, including Weston’s friction of water in pipes, or Tables for estimating the cost of cast-iron water pipe. The first booklet was published first in 1893, and saw various re-editions. He devoted time to original research in hydraulics and water purification, and his foreign travels and studies of water supply and sanitary engineering were extensive. He was all through his career particularly interested in matters relating to water supply engineering. Anonymous (1905). Weston, Edmund B. Who’s who in America: 1585. Marquis: Chicago. Anonymous (1917). Edmund Brownell Weston. Trans. ASCE 81: 1789-1790. Weston, E.B. (1885). Description of some experiments made on the Providence RI water works, to ascertain the force of water ram in pipes. Trans. ASCE 14: 238-246. Weston, E.B. (1890). Formulas for the flow of water in pipes. Trans. ASCE 22: 1-90. Weston, E.B. (1896). Tables for estimating the cost of laying cast-iron water pipe of the ‘Providence pattern’. Engineering News Publishing: New York. Weston, E.B. (1896). Report of the results obtained with experimental filters at the Pettaconset pumping station of the Providence water works. Freeman: Providence RI. Weston, E.B. (1903). Tables showing loss of head due to friction of water in pipes. Van Nostrand: New York. Weston, E.B. (1916). In memoriam my father and my mother Hon. Gershom Bradford Weston, Deborah Brownell Weston of Duxbury MA. Providence RI. P

WESTON R.S. 01.08. 1869 Concord NH/USA 29.07. 1943 Wakefield RI/USA Robert Spurr Weston graduated with a BS degree from the Amherst College, Amherst MA, continuing studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT, Cambridge MA, and at University of Berlin, Germany. He was then an assistant at Louisville Water Company, and studied and travelled widely from 1893 to 1899. Upon return he joined a private consulting office at Boston MA, where his services were widely sought. He was in addition from 1912 to 1916 assistant professor of public health at MIT. He entered the consulting engineering partnership Weston & Sampson then, serving various cities and corporations in connection with sanitary engineering. Weston’s professional career began as a chemist, a subject that he greatly enjoyed, and a field in which he won distinction. One of his earliest engagements was concerned with water filtration experiments at Louisville KY, where his colleagues were Joseph W. Ellms (1867-1950) and George W. Fuller (1868-1934). Once at Boston with Weston & Sampson, where he remained until death, he dealt with projects in water supply, water purification, sewage treatment and disposal, industrial waste treatment, and stream and harbour pollution. He was engaged as sanitary expert in important litigations, including these of the Chicago Drainage Canal, Delaware River, and Connecticut River. He was a co-author of the Handbook and wrote a number of papers on public health subjects. He was an early advocate of the water supply filtration to improve public health, and its chemical treatment to prevent corrosion of the network. He was awarded the Dexter Brackett Memorial Medal by the New England Water Works Association for his works, and received the Desmond Fitzgerald Medal from the Boston Society of Civil Engineers. Weston was kind, understanding, generous to the fault, and helpful to young engineers. He also was fair and maintained always high ethical standards within the profession. Anonymous (1930). Robert Spurr Weston. New England Water Works Association 44(1): 1. P Anonymous (1941). Weston, Robert S. Who’s who in engineering 5: 1904. Lewis: New York. Anonymous (1944). Robert Spurr Weston. Trans. ASCE 109: 1542-1544. Flinn, A.D., Weston, R.S., Bogert, C.L. (1916). Water works handbook. McGraw-Hill: New York. Weston, R.S. (1937). Treating highly colored water. Water Works Engineering 90(3): 388-391. Weston, R.S. (1941). 11-year operating experiences with zeolite softening plant. Water Works Engineering 94(2): 179-180. P