BURDICK

BURDICK 06.03. 1874 Chicago IL/USA 17.02. 1955 Chicago IL/USA Charles Baker Burdick graduated as civil engineer in 1895 from the University of Illinois, Urbana IL. He was first employed by two consultants in Chicago forming in 1902 the partnership Alvord & Burdick until 1922, from when it was Alvord, Burdick & Howson. Burdick contributed significantly to the development of methods for both water and sewage treatment. He also was consulted on the hydraulics of stream flow, floods, and flood relief, authoring with Alvord the 1918 paper on flood prevention and flood protection. He early realized the economic possibilities in the use of super-heated steam in steam turbines and made early installations of that type of equipment in waterworks service. He later converted many steam pumping stations to electric drive. The advice of Burdick was widely sought in the USA. His outstanding developments included the Mokelumne River East Bay City project in San Francisco CA, the Deer Creek Water Development at Salt Lake City UT, the Moffat Filter Plant at Denver CO, and the extensive gallery system at Des Moines IA, which he directed for more than forty years. He also was consultant to the City of Chicago IL on the world’s two largest filtration plants, on the Pioneer Mechanical Filtration Plant at Niagara Falls NY with its phenomenal record of typhoid reduction, and to the Long Island Water Company, New York NY. Burdick was also active in affairs relating to the American Society of Civil Engineers ASCE, whose member he was from 1911. He served as Director from 1935 to 1937, and vice-president in 1941 and 1942, and served as chairman of various ASCE Committees. He was elected Honorary Member ASCE in 1946. He was further member of the American Water Works Association AWWA, and the Chicago Engineer’s Club, of which he was also honorary members. Alvord, J.W., Burdick, C.B. (1915). Report of the Rivers and Lakes Commission on the Illinois River and its Bottom Lands, with reference to the conservation of agriculture and fisheries and the control of floods. State of Illinois: Chicago. Alvord, J.W., Burdick, C.B. (1918). Relief from floods: The fundamentals of flood prevention, flood protection and the means for determining proper remedies. McGraw-Hill: NY. Anonymous (1957). Charles B. Burdick. Trans. ASCE 122: 1232. Burdick, C.B. (1913). Basic principles of ground water collection. Chicago. Burdick, C.B. (1923). Water works pumping station design. Engineering News-Record 90: 964. https://www.abhengineers.com/history.html P

BURGESS 30.06. 1848 West Sandwich MA/USA 12.07. 1891 Boston MA/USA Edward Burgess graduated in 1871 from Harvard University, Cambridge MA. He became secretary then of the Boston Society of Natural History. In 1879 he was engaged as instructor in entomology at Harvard until 1883, when travelling to Europe to study naval architecture. At home he designed and built vessels for his own use, but the success was so enormous and a fortune threw him upon his own resources that he turned to the design of sailing yachts. Several of his boats won fame in the eastern USA, and when in 1884 it became necessary to build a large sloop yacht to represent the USA in international races, he was selected by a committee of Bostonians to draw plans for a suitable vessel. His Puritan easily defeated the English Genesta in the America’s Cup of 1885, which was a remarkable triumph because it was the first attempt of an American designer to solve shipbuilding problems to which the English had given their attention for years. In 1886 the Mayflower of Burgess, slightly larger than the Puritan, led in the race with the English Galatea. In 1888 his fishing schooner Carrie E. Phillips distanced four competitors in the Fisherman’s Race held at Boston harbour. Burgess’ Volunteer won the America’s Cup against the Thristle, the special product of British genius, in the international races of 1887. His other yachts included the Mariquita and the Gossoon, both remarkably swift sloops designed to counter the success of the Clyde-built cutter Minerva by the British in 1888. The 1887 book of the Boston City Council shows the beauty of these yachts and highlights the pride of all involved in Burgess’ successes. Burgess was inducted into the America’s Cup Hall of Fame in 1994. Anonymous (1887). A testimonial to Charles J. Paine and Edward Burgess from the City of Boston for their successful defence of the America’s Cup. City Council: Boston. P Anonymous (1892). Edward Burgess. Proc. American Academy of Arts and Science 27(Memoirs): 357-360. Anonymous (1900). Burgess, Edward. Appleton’s cyclopaedia of American biography 1: 451. McVey, A.G. (1892). Edward Burgess and his work. New England Magazine 5(1): 49-62. P Rosbe, J.W. (2002). Maritime Marion Massachusetts. Arcadia: Charleston SC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Burgess P https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Collier%27s_New_Encyclopedia_(1921)/Burgess,_Edward https://www.herreshoff.org/achof/edward_burgess.html