Ithaca, NY
Cornell Alumni News, pg. 199
Vol. XXI No. 17
January 23, 1919
OBITUARY
Professor Clinton Carpenter died at his home in Ithaca on Sunday morning, January 19, after a four-months' illness.
Professor Carpenter was born near Orion, Michigan, on June 26, 1852, the son of Charles K. and Jeannette Coryell Carpenter. After studying at the Pontiac High School, he entered the Michigan Agricultural College, receiving the degree of B.S. in 1873. Then he went to the University of Michigan, graduating C.E. in 1875. Returning to the Agricultural College as instructor, he also did graduate work and took the degree of M.S. in 1876. Two years later he was made professor of Mathematics and civil engineering, and held this post until 1890. He spent his vacations in study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Cornell, receiving from the latter the degree of M.M.E. in 1888. His thesis, on "Internal Friction in Noncondensing Engines," played an important part in the entire revision of the then-prevalent ideas about steam engine friction.
In 1890 he was appointed associate professor of engineering in Sibley College (of Cornell)and took charge of the laboratory work which was then organized as a special department. Five years later he became professor of experimental engineering, holding this chair until his retirement in June, 1917.
A writer in The Sibley Journal for June, 1917, says of him: "Professor Carpenter's experience in the several leading educational institutions as well as his intimate contact with various industrial enterprises peculiarly fitted him for the work of building up a course in experimental engineering which has done much for the upbuilding of Sibley College and which is regarded by many alumni as furnishing a most valuable part of their education. This system has been copied with some modifications in many others colleges and technical school and has no doubt had a pronounced influence upon the methods of teaching other sciences." He was an educational leader and filled his students with an abiding zeal and enthusiasm for their work.
Professor Carpenter was a tireless worker. His field included problems relating to power plants, gas engines, cement manufacture, coke manufacture, railway management, lighting, heating, and ventilation. He was consulting engineer for many cement companies. He had active charge of many large engineering constructions. He was a leading patent expert and was employed in many important cases. Among his numerous inventions was the Carpenter coal calorimeter, for many years a standard for testing the heating value of coal, the throttling and separating steam calorimeter now widely used, a machine for testing friction, and an inertia governor for the steam engine.
He was a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (vice-president, 1908-11), the American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers (president, 1898), the American Society of Automobile Engineers (vice-president, 1910-12), the American Society of Refrigerating Engineers, Delta Tau Delta, Sigma Xi (president of the Alpha Chapter, 1912-13), Tau Beta Pi, the Masonic order, the New York Engineers and Railroad Clubs, and the Town and Gown Club.
He was a judge of machinery and transportation at the Chicago Exposition in 1893, the Buffalo Exposition in 1901, and the Jamestown Exposition in 1907. He was also a member of the Panama Slides Commission appointed by the Academy of Sciences in 1915 at the request of President Wilson. His alma mater conferred on him the degree of LL.D. in 1906.
He was the author of "Experimental Engineering," 1890, of which seven editions have appeared; "Heating and Ventilating, " 1898, of which five editions have appeared; "The Gas Engine" (with Professor Diedrichs) and many papers in various scientific journals.
Professor Carpenter was married on May 25, 1876, to Miss Marion Dewey of Greenville, Mich., who survives him, with two sons, George D. and Charles K., a daughter, Mrs. H.H. Buckingham, two brothers, Judge William L. Carpenter, of Detroit, and Professor Louis G. Carpenter, of Denver, and three sisters, Mrs. Charles H. Seeley, of Lewiston, Montana, Mrs. N.S. Mayo, of Chicago, and Mrs. Mark Wheeler, of San Antonio, Texas.
A private funeral was held from the residence on Tuesday afternoon and interment was made at Orion, Michigan.
Cornell Alumni News, pg. 199
Vol. XXI No. 17
January 23, 1919
OBITUARY
Professor Clinton Carpenter died at his home in Ithaca on Sunday morning, January 19, after a four-months' illness.
Professor Carpenter was born near Orion, Michigan, on June 26, 1852, the son of Charles K. and Jeannette Coryell Carpenter. After studying at the Pontiac High School, he entered the Michigan Agricultural College, receiving the degree of B.S. in 1873. Then he went to the University of Michigan, graduating C.E. in 1875. Returning to the Agricultural College as instructor, he also did graduate work and took the degree of M.S. in 1876. Two years later he was made professor of Mathematics and civil engineering, and held this post until 1890. He spent his vacations in study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Cornell, receiving from the latter the degree of M.M.E. in 1888. His thesis, on "Internal Friction in Noncondensing Engines," played an important part in the entire revision of the then-prevalent ideas about steam engine friction.
In 1890 he was appointed associate professor of engineering in Sibley College (of Cornell)and took charge of the laboratory work which was then organized as a special department. Five years later he became professor of experimental engineering, holding this chair until his retirement in June, 1917.
A writer in The Sibley Journal for June, 1917, says of him: "Professor Carpenter's experience in the several leading educational institutions as well as his intimate contact with various industrial enterprises peculiarly fitted him for the work of building up a course in experimental engineering which has done much for the upbuilding of Sibley College and which is regarded by many alumni as furnishing a most valuable part of their education. This system has been copied with some modifications in many others colleges and technical school and has no doubt had a pronounced influence upon the methods of teaching other sciences." He was an educational leader and filled his students with an abiding zeal and enthusiasm for their work.
Professor Carpenter was a tireless worker. His field included problems relating to power plants, gas engines, cement manufacture, coke manufacture, railway management, lighting, heating, and ventilation. He was consulting engineer for many cement companies. He had active charge of many large engineering constructions. He was a leading patent expert and was employed in many important cases. Among his numerous inventions was the Carpenter coal calorimeter, for many years a standard for testing the heating value of coal, the throttling and separating steam calorimeter now widely used, a machine for testing friction, and an inertia governor for the steam engine.
He was a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (vice-president, 1908-11), the American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers (president, 1898), the American Society of Automobile Engineers (vice-president, 1910-12), the American Society of Refrigerating Engineers, Delta Tau Delta, Sigma Xi (president of the Alpha Chapter, 1912-13), Tau Beta Pi, the Masonic order, the New York Engineers and Railroad Clubs, and the Town and Gown Club.
He was a judge of machinery and transportation at the Chicago Exposition in 1893, the Buffalo Exposition in 1901, and the Jamestown Exposition in 1907. He was also a member of the Panama Slides Commission appointed by the Academy of Sciences in 1915 at the request of President Wilson. His alma mater conferred on him the degree of LL.D. in 1906.
He was the author of "Experimental Engineering," 1890, of which seven editions have appeared; "Heating and Ventilating, " 1898, of which five editions have appeared; "The Gas Engine" (with Professor Diedrichs) and many papers in various scientific journals.
Professor Carpenter was married on May 25, 1876, to Miss Marion Dewey of Greenville, Mich., who survives him, with two sons, George D. and Charles K., a daughter, Mrs. H.H. Buckingham, two brothers, Judge William L. Carpenter, of Detroit, and Professor Louis G. Carpenter, of Denver, and three sisters, Mrs. Charles H. Seeley, of Lewiston, Montana, Mrs. N.S. Mayo, of Chicago, and Mrs. Mark Wheeler, of San Antonio, Texas.
A private funeral was held from the residence on Tuesday afternoon and interment was made at Orion, Michigan.
Ithaca, NY
Cornell Alumni News, pg. 199
Vol. XXI No. 17
January 23, 1919
OBITUARY
Professor Clinton Carpenter died at his home in Ithaca on Sunday morning, January 19, after a four-months' illness.
Professor Carpenter was born near Orion, Michigan, on June 26, 1852, the son of Charles K. and Jeannette Coryell Carpenter. After studying at the Pontiac High School, he entered the Michigan Agricultural College, receiving the degree of B.S. in 1873. Then he went to the University of Michigan, graduating C.E. in 1875. Returning to the Agricultural College as instructor, he also did graduate work and took the degree of M.S. in 1876. Two years later he was made professor of Mathematics and civil engineering, and held this post until 1890. He spent his vacations in study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Cornell, receiving from the latter the degree of M.M.E. in 1888. His thesis, on "Internal Friction in Noncondensing Engines," played an important part in the entire revision of the then-prevalent ideas about steam engine friction.
In 1890 he was appointed associate professor of engineering in Sibley College (of Cornell)and took charge of the laboratory work which was then organized as a special department. Five years later he became professor of experimental engineering, holding this chair until his retirement in June, 1917.
A writer in The Sibley Journal for June, 1917, says of him: "Professor Carpenter's experience in the several leading educational institutions as well as his intimate contact with various industrial enterprises peculiarly fitted him for the work of building up a course in experimental engineering which has done much for the upbuilding of Sibley College and which is regarded by many alumni as furnishing a most valuable part of their education. This system has been copied with some modifications in many others colleges and technical school and has no doubt had a pronounced influence upon the methods of teaching other sciences." He was an educational leader and filled his students with an abiding zeal and enthusiasm for their work.
Professor Carpenter was a tireless worker. His field included problems relating to power plants, gas engines, cement manufacture, coke manufacture, railway management, lighting, heating, and ventilation. He was consulting engineer for many cement companies. He had active charge of many large engineering constructions. He was a leading patent expert and was employed in many important cases. Among his numerous inventions was the Carpenter coal calorimeter, for many years a standard for testing the heating value of coal, the throttling and separating steam calorimeter now widely used, a machine for testing friction, and an inertia governor for the steam engine.
He was a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (vice-president, 1908-11), the American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers (president, 1898), the American Society of Automobile Engineers (vice-president, 1910-12), the American Society of Refrigerating Engineers, Delta Tau Delta, Sigma Xi (president of the Alpha Chapter, 1912-13), Tau Beta Pi, the Masonic order, the New York Engineers and Railroad Clubs, and the Town and Gown Club.
He was a judge of machinery and transportation at the Chicago Exposition in 1893, the Buffalo Exposition in 1901, and the Jamestown Exposition in 1907. He was also a member of the Panama Slides Commission appointed by the Academy of Sciences in 1915 at the request of President Wilson. His alma mater conferred on him the degree of LL.D. in 1906.
He was the author of "Experimental Engineering," 1890, of which seven editions have appeared; "Heating and Ventilating, " 1898, of which five editions have appeared; "The Gas Engine" (with Professor Diedrichs) and many papers in various scientific journals.
Professor Carpenter was married on May 25, 1876, to Miss Marion Dewey of Greenville, Mich., who survives him, with two sons, George D. and Charles K., a daughter, Mrs. H.H. Buckingham, two brothers, Judge William L. Carpenter, of Detroit, and Professor Louis G. Carpenter, of Denver, and three sisters, Mrs. Charles H. Seeley, of Lewiston, Montana, Mrs. N.S. Mayo, of Chicago, and Mrs. Mark Wheeler, of San Antonio, Texas.
A private funeral was held from the residence on Tuesday afternoon and interment was made at Orion, Michigan.
Cornell Alumni News, pg. 199
Vol. XXI No. 17
January 23, 1919
OBITUARY
Professor Clinton Carpenter died at his home in Ithaca on Sunday morning, January 19, after a four-months' illness.
Professor Carpenter was born near Orion, Michigan, on June 26, 1852, the son of Charles K. and Jeannette Coryell Carpenter. After studying at the Pontiac High School, he entered the Michigan Agricultural College, receiving the degree of B.S. in 1873. Then he went to the University of Michigan, graduating C.E. in 1875. Returning to the Agricultural College as instructor, he also did graduate work and took the degree of M.S. in 1876. Two years later he was made professor of Mathematics and civil engineering, and held this post until 1890. He spent his vacations in study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Cornell, receiving from the latter the degree of M.M.E. in 1888. His thesis, on "Internal Friction in Noncondensing Engines," played an important part in the entire revision of the then-prevalent ideas about steam engine friction.
In 1890 he was appointed associate professor of engineering in Sibley College (of Cornell)and took charge of the laboratory work which was then organized as a special department. Five years later he became professor of experimental engineering, holding this chair until his retirement in June, 1917.
A writer in The Sibley Journal for June, 1917, says of him: "Professor Carpenter's experience in the several leading educational institutions as well as his intimate contact with various industrial enterprises peculiarly fitted him for the work of building up a course in experimental engineering which has done much for the upbuilding of Sibley College and which is regarded by many alumni as furnishing a most valuable part of their education. This system has been copied with some modifications in many others colleges and technical school and has no doubt had a pronounced influence upon the methods of teaching other sciences." He was an educational leader and filled his students with an abiding zeal and enthusiasm for their work.
Professor Carpenter was a tireless worker. His field included problems relating to power plants, gas engines, cement manufacture, coke manufacture, railway management, lighting, heating, and ventilation. He was consulting engineer for many cement companies. He had active charge of many large engineering constructions. He was a leading patent expert and was employed in many important cases. Among his numerous inventions was the Carpenter coal calorimeter, for many years a standard for testing the heating value of coal, the throttling and separating steam calorimeter now widely used, a machine for testing friction, and an inertia governor for the steam engine.
He was a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (vice-president, 1908-11), the American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers (president, 1898), the American Society of Automobile Engineers (vice-president, 1910-12), the American Society of Refrigerating Engineers, Delta Tau Delta, Sigma Xi (president of the Alpha Chapter, 1912-13), Tau Beta Pi, the Masonic order, the New York Engineers and Railroad Clubs, and the Town and Gown Club.
He was a judge of machinery and transportation at the Chicago Exposition in 1893, the Buffalo Exposition in 1901, and the Jamestown Exposition in 1907. He was also a member of the Panama Slides Commission appointed by the Academy of Sciences in 1915 at the request of President Wilson. His alma mater conferred on him the degree of LL.D. in 1906.
He was the author of "Experimental Engineering," 1890, of which seven editions have appeared; "Heating and Ventilating, " 1898, of which five editions have appeared; "The Gas Engine" (with Professor Diedrichs) and many papers in various scientific journals.
Professor Carpenter was married on May 25, 1876, to Miss Marion Dewey of Greenville, Mich., who survives him, with two sons, George D. and Charles K., a daughter, Mrs. H.H. Buckingham, two brothers, Judge William L. Carpenter, of Detroit, and Professor Louis G. Carpenter, of Denver, and three sisters, Mrs. Charles H. Seeley, of Lewiston, Montana, Mrs. N.S. Mayo, of Chicago, and Mrs. Mark Wheeler, of San Antonio, Texas.
A private funeral was held from the residence on Tuesday afternoon and interment was made at Orion, Michigan.
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ROLLA CLINTON CARPENTER
June 26, 1852
Jan. 19, 1919
MARION DEWEY CARPENTER
April 3, 1853
Nov. 23, 1939
CHARLES KETCHAM CARPENTER
July 25, 1884
Jan. 25, 1937.
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