Background
Craft, Edward Beech was born on September 12, 1881 in Cortland, Trumbull Company, Ohio, United States. Son of Charles C. and Nora A. (Trowbridge) Craft.
Craft, Edward Beech was born on September 12, 1881 in Cortland, Trumbull Company, Ohio, United States. Son of Charles C. and Nora A. (Trowbridge) Craft.
Preparatory education, high school, Warren, O. D. Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1926.
Virginia. With Warren (O.) Electric and Specialty Company, 1898-1902 (last 2 years as superintendent lamp department). With department design of communication equipment, Western Electric Company, Chicago, 1902-1907. Development engineer, in charge telephone apparatus design, Western Electric Company, New York, 1907-1917.
Assistant chief engineer same, in charge development and design, 1917-1922. Chief engineer same and International Western Electric Company, 1922-1925. Executive vice president Bell Telephone laboratories, Incorporated, New York York, since 1925.
Captain Signal Corps, United States of America, March 1917. Major, December 1917. Technical adviser United States Navy, London, June-October 1918.
Vice chairman division of engineering and industrial research National Research Council. Chairman of the Board Engineering Socs. Library; member of council American Institute Weights and Measures.
Member of council American Institute Weights and Measures.
Married Mary Ann Richards, October 21, 1902.