Achievements

• Princeton University awarded him an honorary doctoral degree

Works

• book

  • The Wonder Books of Science

Membership

• American Institute of Electrical Engineers , United States

  1893 - 1895

• United States Electrical Commission

• the American Institute of Mining Engineers

• the American Philosophical Society

Connections

student colleague:

Elihu Thomson

They created the Thomson-Houston Electric Company

colleague:

Arthur Kennelly

They formed a consulting firm in electrical engineering. They had also also jointly published a series called "Primers of Electricity" .