1. Schuyler Skaats Wheeler was an American electrical engineer and manufacturer who invented the electric fan, an electric elevator design, and the electric fire engine.
25 Facts About Schuyler Wheeler
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Schuyler Wheeler is associated with the early development of the electric motor industry, especially to do with training the blind in this industry for gainful employment.
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Schuyler Wheeler helped develop and implement a code of ethics for electrical engineers and was associated with the electrical field in one way or another for over thirty years.
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Schuyler Wheeler was the son of James Edwin and Ann Wood Wheeler.
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Schuyler Wheeler joined the engineering staff of Thomas A Edison and was part of the project when the Pearl Street Station debuted the first incandescent light bulbs.
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Schuyler Wheeler acted as general manager of the underground distribution system at Newburgh, New York.
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Schuyler Wheeler was afterwards in charge to lay the Edison underground systems in other cities.
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Schuyler Wheeler worked for Herzog Teleseme Company as electrician for a short time between 1884 and 1885.
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Alongside F Benedict Herzog, Wheeler was granted a patent for an "Electric Signaling Apparatus" in 1896.
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Schuyler Wheeler was for seven years the electrical expert consultant specialist of the Board of Electrical Control of New York.
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Schuyler Wheeler donated the Latimer Clark Library collection and it became the foundation of the library housed in New York's Engineering Societies' Building.
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Schuyler Wheeler invented the use of the electric motor in connection the Gatling gun which reduced the work of the operator when firing to simply pressing a button.
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Schuyler Wheeler invented paralleling of dynamos and series multiple motor control.
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Schuyler Wheeler was the club's first vice president and the consulting engineer.
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Schuyler Wheeler's innovation was to have each club member just sit in his chair and press a button for their vote.
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Schuyler Wheeler innovated a way after World War I to have disabled veterans that became visually impaired from war injuries to become productively employed as self-supporting citizens.
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Schuyler Wheeler established an auxiliary factory of the Double-Duty Finger Guild on May 11,1917.
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Schuyler Wheeler traveled to Europe in 1918 to explain to the French and British governments this system he used for the blind.
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Schuyler Wheeler allowed his main factory to be used as a workshop and research facilities in which the blind could test these various unconventional manufacturing techniques.
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Schuyler Wheeler died in 1900 and he married again in 1901 to Amy Sutton, daughter of John Joseph Sutton of Rye, New York.
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Schuyler Wheeler was a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers; the American Society of Mechanical Engineers; the American Institute of Electrical Engineers ; the University Club; the Lotus Club; the Lawyers' Club; and the Automobile Club.
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Schuyler Wheeler was a member of the Efficiency Society with other millionaires.
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Schuyler Wheeler wrote several technical articles related to electricity in various journals.
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Schuyler Wheeler was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Science by Hobart College ; and a Master of Science by Columbia College.
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Schuyler Wheeler died of angina pectoris at his home in Manhattan on April 20,1923.