Archief F0523 - Alexander Graham Christie fonds

Alexander Graham Christie, 1880-1964, was born in Manchester, Ontario, and received a degree in mechanical and electrical engineering from the University of Toronto. In 1901 he emigrated to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, and in 1918 became a naturalized citizen. He worked for the Westinghouse Machine Co., taught for a year at Cornell University, and in 1905 moved to Wisconsin to work for Allis-Chalmers Co. While in this company's employ he helped build the Western Canadian Cement and Coal Co. cement plant at Exshaw, Alberta. In 1909 he became associate professor of engineering at the University of Wisconsin, and in 1914 joined the School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. He became director of the School in 1917 and retired in 1948. He wrote a number of engineering handbooks and was a member of numerous societies. He married Flora Brown of Ohio in 1919 and they had two children, Peter and Catherine.