Harold Chestnut was an American electrical engineer, control engineer and manager at General Electric and author, who helped establish the fields of control theory and systems engineering.
13 Facts About Harold Chestnut
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Harold Chestnut was born in Albany, New York, where his father, educated as a civil engineer, and worked in the family candy business.
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Harold Chestnut received further on-the-job training in General Electric's Advanced Engineering Program.
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In 1940 Harold Chestnut began a lifelong career with General Electric, which would last until his retirement in 1983.
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Harold Chestnut married Erma Ruth Callaway Chestnut in 1944 and they had three sons.
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Harold Chestnut worked on the design of the central fire-control system and remotely controlled gun turrets used on the B-29 aircraft.
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Harold Chestnut served as honorary editor from 1969 to 1972 and was the first adviser appointed for life in 1984.
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In 1961 Harold Chestnut edited Automatica: The International Journal on Automatic Control and Automation.
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Harold Chestnut became editor of a John Wiley book series on systems engineering and analysis.
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Harold Chestnut devoted those years to this effort, in which he applied principles from the control field, such as stability and feedback, to international political realities.
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Harold Chestnut received many awards: In 1966 he received an Honorary Doctorate in engineering from Case Western Reserve University and in 1972 from Villanova University.
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Harold Chestnut was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 1974 and selected as a Case Centennial Scholar in 1980.
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Harold Chestnut worked in the fields of Control system, control theory and systems engineering.