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Charles Haynes Haswell was born on May 22, 1809, in North Moore Street, New York City, New York, United States. His father, Charles Haswell, was a native of Dublin, at one time in the British diplomatic service; his mother, Dorothea Haynes, came of a prominent colonial family in Barbados.
Reared in a cultured home, Charles received a classical education. He graduated from Joseph Nelson’s Collegiate Institute.
Charles Haswell entered the shops of James P. Allaire, the foremost steam-engine builder of the day. Here he became in time chief draftsman and designer. On February 19, 1836, in pursuance of the purpose of Secretary Mahlon Dickerson, to introduce steam power into the navy, Haswell was commissioned to submit designs for engines for the frigate Fulton, then being built, and on July 12 he was appointed chief engineer to superintend their construction. The engines, installed during the summer of 1837, were double engines 50 x 108 inches, with cast-iron cranks and shafts, driving a side wheel 22 feet 9 inches in diameter, and with 11 feet face. The boilers, designed by Charles W. Copeland, were of copper - standard practice at that time. In 1839-1842, with Copeland, Haswell designed and supervised the building of the machinery for the naval vessels Mississippi, Missouri, and Michigan, in one instance going personally to the mould loft and laying out the shape and dimensions of each plate entering into the construction of the boilers he had designed.
He took a leading part in the agitation by the naval engineers which resulted in the passage by Confess, in 1842, of an act providing for a force of engineers to be headed by a “skillful and scientific engineer in chief. ” The man first selected for this important post, Gilbert L. Thompson, was a lawyer and a business man, with no engineering experience. He indorsed a scheme to dispose of and thereby conceal the smoke from the boilers of a ship by discharging it into the water raised by the paddle wheels, and in the spring of 1843 ordered that the plan be put into operation on the Missouri, of which Haswell was men chief engineer. Haswell protested vigorously and pointed out the utter impracticability of the project, but he was over-ruled, and on the ailure of the attempt, suspended from duty. The misjustice of the suspension was soon recognized, and reinstatement offered him on condition that he apologize. Haswell rejected.
Taken from sea duty for a time, he was assigned to designing the machinery for four revenue cutters. The following year, however, he was fully reinstated, and succeeded Thompson as engineer in chief of the navy. In this capacity he drew up the general order of February 26, 1845, defining the duties and responsibilities of the engineer afloat, which was for more than fifty years the basis for the navy’s steam instructions, and was instrumental in obtaining the passage of the Act of 1845 which fixed the relative rank of engineers and naval officers.
In 1852, as a result of overwork, controversy, and chronic dyspepsia, Haswell returned to civil life. He designed commercial vessels, foundations for high buildings, harbor cribs and fills; was surveyor of steamers for Lloyd’s and the New York underwriters, and a trustee of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge. From 1855 to 1858 Haswell was a member of the Common Council of the city, and for a year its president; he served as consulting engineer for various departments of the city government. During the Civil War he saw active service under General Burnside.
Haswell’s professional publications included Mechanics Tables (1854) and Mensuration and Practical Geometry (1856). He also issued a work on Bookkeeping (1860), and in 1896 he was persuaded to publish Reminiscences of an Octogenarian of the City of New York, 1816 to 1860, which he had written down some years before. Actively engaged in engineering until the end of his life, he died as the result of a fall, ten days before his ninety-eighth birthday.
Charles Haswell was the first engineer in the United States navy. He designed and supervised the building of the machinery for the naval vessels Mississippi, Missouri, and Michigan. He was famous for placing slabs of zinc in the boilers of the Princeton to direct oxidation from the boiler plates in 1846, anticipating by nearly thirty years the introduction of this idea as a new invention in England. Haswell was also known for his Mechanic’s and Engineer’s Pocket Book, first issued in 1842. This work, which gained the sobriquet, “The Engineer’s Bible, ” carried through its seventy-fourth edition in 1913, with a total sale of more than 146, 000 copies.
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A lifelong Democrat, at the time of his death Haswell was the oldest living member of the Tammany organization.
Quotations: “I would rather suffer injustice from another than to be unjust to myself. ”
In 1829 Haswell was married to Ann Elizabeth Burns, who bore him three sons and three daughters.
