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William Kent was born on March 5, 1851 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, the son of James Kent and his second wife Janet Scott, who came to America from Bothwell, Scotland, in 1848.
William studied at the public schools of Philadelphia and graduated from Central High School at seventeen. Later he attended classes at Cooper Union in New York City. In 1874 he entered the junior class of Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey and was graduated with the degree of Master of Engineering in 1876.
About 1868 Kent had part-time employment with the Jersey City Gas Company and later with the Ringwood Iron Works, Hewitt, New Jersey. In June 1875 he became an assistant to Dr. Robert L. Thurston, professor of mechanical engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology, with whom he conducted (1875 - 1877) studies of the properties of copper-tin and copper-zinc alloys for the United States Iron and Steel Testing Board.
From 1877 to 1882 he was an editor of the American Manufacturer and Iron World, Pittsburgh, and mechanical engineer and open-hearth superintendent for Schoenberger & Company, Pittsburgh. In 1882 he became manager of the Pittsburgh office of the Babcock & Wilcox Company, manufacturers of water-tube boilers, and at the same time, with William F. Zimmerman, formed the Pittsburgh Testing Laboratory. This business, which was the pioneer commercial physical testing laboratory, was sold to Alfred E. Hunt of Hunt & Clapp, and Kent went to New York City as superintendent of sales and engineer of tests for the Babcock & Wilcox Company.
In 1887 Kent left the boiler company to become general manager of the United States Torsion Balance and Scale Company. After holding this position for four years he established a private consulting engineering practice in New York City which he continued except for one or two interruptions throughout his life. At about this time, too, he began his serious editorial work and writing. He became associate editor of Engineering News in 1895 and served in this capacity for eight years, resigning then to become dean of the L. C. Smith College of Applied Science at Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York. In 1908 he left this position to become manager of the Sandusky Foundry and Machine Company at Sandusky, Ohio. Two years later he resumed his consulting practice in New York, and at the same time, from 1910 to 1914, served as editor of Industrial Engineering.
In 1895 he had published the first edition of his Mechanical Engineers' Pocket-Book. This was the first mechanical engineer's handbook of the modern type and was a carefully authenticated compilation of the engineering data which he had collected and used during the years of his practice. The book stood alone for about twenty years and at the time of his death the ninth edition had been published.
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Kent was an organizing member and vice-president (1888 - 1890) of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and was president (1905) of the American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers.
Kent's wife was Marion Weild Smith whom he married on February 25, 1879.