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Edmund Bruce Ball FRSE (21 May 1873 – 17 June 1944) was an English hydraulic engineer.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Former RSE Fellows 1783-2002 )〕 He specialised in the storage and distribution of water. ==Life== He was born in Thetford in Norfolk. He was educated in Thetford and then apprenticed as an enginneer to Charles Burrell & Sons in that towns. His talent won him a scholarship to study engineering at Manchester School of Technology.〔http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Edmund_Bruce_Ball〕 He had a very successful career, starting as Chief Designer for Benjamin Goodfellow & Co in Hyde, Manchester. Thereafter he served as Works Manager for Reavell & Co in Ipswich, Technical Director for San Georgio Co in Genoa, Technical Director for Samuel & Co Ltd in Shanghai and Manchuria, Works Manager at D Napier & Son in Acton, and Managing Director of Glenfield & Kennedy in Kilmarnock.〔http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf〕 His last position also gave him control of two subsidiary companies: British Pitometer and Hydrautomat. He served as President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers from 1939 to 1940.〔Lane (1971), p. 232〕 He was also President of the Institute of Water Engineers. He was an Honorary Life Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He died of a heart attack at his home, Eldo House, in Monkton, Ayrshire. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edmund Bruce Ball」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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