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Halbert Powers Gillette (1869-1958) was an American engineer and prolific author of textbooks and handbooks for the engineering and construction fields.〔Young, Lewis Emanuel, and Harry Harkness Stoek. ''Subsidence resulting from mining.'' (1916).〕〔Richardson, Charles Henry. ''The Road Materials of Kentucky: A Preliminary Report Covering Field and Laboratory Investigations of Rock, Gravel and Bituminous Sandstone Deposits Occurring Within the Commonwealth.'' Vol. 22. Kentucky Geological survey, 1924.〕 == Biography == Born on August 5, 1869, in Waverly, Iowa to Theodore Weld and Laetitia S. (Powers),〔"GILLETTE, Halbert Powers, Editor, engineer" in: ''WHO WAS WHO IN AMERICA,'' VOL III 1951-1960〕 Gillette attended the Hammond Hall Academy in Salt Lake City, where he graduated in 1886. Six years later in 1892, he received his engineering degree at the School of Mines at Columbia University,〔 where he was classmate of Edward B. Durham.〔 Columbia University. ''Handbook of Information.'' 1893. p. 98〕 After some years working in the industry, Gillette served as assistant New York State Engineer under Campbell W. Adams from 1896 to 1898. The next three years he worked as a contractor, and from 1903 to 1905 he was Associate editor of the ''Engineering News''.〔 In 1905, he founded Scranton Gillette Communications, Inc., where he became president. From 1906 to 1907, he served as chief engineer of the Washington Railroad Commission.〔 Later, Gillette became an instructor of science at Columbia University. Gillette was a member of the American Society of Consulting Engineers, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Society of Engineering Contractors, the American Institute of Mining Engineers, and the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education. Gillette died on June 18, 1958, and was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.〔 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「Halbert Powers Gillette」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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