Word: swasey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fall River, Mass., one Mary Lovering Swasey, 20, returned from the House-in-the-Pines girls' boarding school and declared...
John Fritz Medal. The John Fritz Gold Medal, one of the highest engineering honors in America, has been awarded for 1924 to Ambrose Swasey, of Cleveland. Mr. Swasey, born in New Hampshire in 1846, is now Vice Chairman of the Warner & Swasey Co., pioneer manufacturers of astronomical and optical apparatus, fine machine tools, precision instruments, military and naval rangefinders. Under his direction were built the 36-inch refractor at Lick Observatory, the 40-inch refractor at Yerkes Observatory (largest in the world), and the 72-inch reflecting telescope at the Dominion Observatory, Victoria, B. C. But his chief claim...