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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...because he looms as a potent public utility tycoon but because he is an able mining engineer. In 1894 with Edwin Nash Sanderson, he formed the highly successful consulting engineering firm of Sanderson & Porter, today consulting engineers for American Water Works & Electric Co. Probably unconscious of the virtual homonym, Water Works Engineer Porter chose as head of the foundation's research committee George Booker Waterhouse, M. I. T. professor of metallurgy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Iron Alloys | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

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