Background
Buckingham, Earle was born on September 4, 1887 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States. Son of Francis Smith and Mary Hills (Kingman) Buckingham.
Buckingham, Earle was born on September 4, 1887 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States. Son of Francis Smith and Mary Hills (Kingman) Buckingham.
Student United States Naval Academy, 1904-1906.
With Graphophone Company, Bridgeport, Connecticut, 1906-1908, Winchester Repeating Arms Company, New Haven, 1908-1909, Veeder Manufacturing Company, Hartford, 1909-1911, Royal Typewriter Company, Hartford, 1911-1914, Canadian Carolina & Foundry Company, New York, 1915, Winchester Repeating Arms Company, 1916-1917, Pratt & Whitney Company, Hartford, 1919-1924. Professor emeritus mechanic engineering, Massachusetts Institute Technology. Now technical director Gear Systems, Incorporated., West Concord.
Captain and major Ordnance Department United States Army, 1917-1919.
Major O.R.C. Worcester Reed Warner medal American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1945, Edward P. Connell Award by American Gear Manufacturers Association, 1950. Gold Medal, American Society of Tool Engineers, 1957.
Member National Screw Thread Commission since 1920. Member Society Automotive Engineers. Member American Society Mechanics
Engineers.
Married Nina Walmsley Morgan, August 5, 1911. Children: Emily Fisher, Janet Olive, Forrest Morgan, Eliot Kingman.