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Bernard Behrend was born on May 9, 1875, at Villeneuve, Switzerland, the youngest son among many children in the family of Moritz and Rebecca (Wolf) Behrend. His relatives had long been identified with the paper manufacturing business; his father founded the Hammermill Paper Company in Germany.
During his early years Bernard was instructed by private tutors in Switzerland, France, and England. Specializing in engineering, he later studied at the Polytechnic Institute at Charlottenburg, Germany, and at the University of Berlin, where he received the degree of C. E. in 1894.
Bernard was designing power plants as assistant to Gisbert Kapp in England. In 1896 he became assistant chief engineer for the Oerlikon Company, manufacturers of electrical machinery in Switzerland. There he had charge of the testing department and also worked on the design of alternating-current and direct-current electrical machinery. In 1898 he emigrated to the United States for the purpose of permanently establishing himself, and later he became an American citizen (1903). For a time he worked as a consultant and also delivered a course of lectures at the University of Wisconsin. In 1900 he joined the staff of the Bullock Electrical Manufacturing Company at Cincinnati, became its chief engineer, and designed some very important turbo-electric machinery for that time. Upon the consolidation of this company with the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company of Milwaukee, Behrend became head of their combined electrical departments and directed with distinction the designing of many alternating-current generators, driven either by hydraulic turbines, steam turbines, or gas engines.
In 1908 the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company invited Behrend to organize a similar department at East Pittsburgh, and he joined their engineering force. Some two years later, however, he moved to Boston to open an office as a consulting engineer, in which capacity he continued to serve the Westinghouse Company. He designed large gas-engine-driven alternators for the power houses of the Indiana, United States, and other steel companies; the electric generating units for several electric power companies, notably a group of units for Niagara Falls, and the steam-turbine units of the Brooklyn Edison Company and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company. As a consequence of his work, American electrical engineering owes Behrend a large debt.
Behrend published numerous technical papers of importance. His book entitled The Induction Motor, published in 1901, was an original demonstration of the use of the circle diagram in connection with the design of such motors. It was translated into French and German, and parts of it into Japanese. A second and enlarged edition was brought out in 1921 under the title, The Induction Motor and Other Alternating-Current Motors.
Behrend’s residence in Wellesley Hills, which he largely designed, became a center of true hospitality and philosophical discussion. It contained a working laboratory and a half a mile of bookshelves, thereby reflecting the personality of its owner who was a man of discriminating taste as well as a scientist, scholar, and engineer. Frail in body, Behrend grew despondent over his continued ill health and finally ended his own life.
Bernard Behrend was the most outstanding electrical engineer of his time. He designed large gas-engine-driven alternators for the power houses; the electric generating units for several electric power companies; the steam-turbine units of the Brooklyn Edison Company and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, etc. The theories and discoveries which he developed as a young man became guiding principles for succeeding designers, and many of his ideas which at first seemed revolutionary became accepted practice. He was granted over eighty patents, most of which were assigned to the companies which had employed him. Behrend's most important published work was The Induction Motor (1901). The University of Darmstadt in Germany conferred upon Behrend the honorary degree of Doctor of Engineering in 1931.
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Bernard Behrend was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; the American Physical Society; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; the American Society of Civil Engineers; the American Society of Mechanical Engineers; the Institute of Electrical Engineers (British); the Franklin Institute; the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities; the Engineers Clubs in New York City and Boston; and the Athletic Club in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
During his years of active engineering Behrend also pursued as a personal hobby the making of fine instruments for precision measurements. Other hobbies which engrossed his attention were book-collecting and studies of American Colonial architecture and early American furniture. Of books he bought widely in the field of Americana and belles lettres as well as in science, and at one time owned what was reputed to be the finest collection of Thackeray in America.
In 1926, Bernard Behrend was married to Margaret P. Chase of Brookline, Massachussets.
