Background
Wadsworth, Frank Lawton Olcott was born in 1867 in Wellington, Ohio, United States. Son of Francis Sage Wadsworth.
Wadsworth, Frank Lawton Olcott was born in 1867 in Wellington, Ohio, United States. Son of Francis Sage Wadsworth.
Graduate Engineer of Mines (mining engineer), Ohio State University, 1888, Bachelor of Science, 1889, Mechanical Engineering (mechanic engineer), 1889. Clark University, 1889-1892.
Delaware from Smithsonian Institution to International Bureau Weights and Meas., Paris, to assist in establishing absolute length of standard meter, 1892. Senior assistant in charge Astrophysical Observatory, Washington, 1892-1894. Assistant professor physics, University of Chicago, 1894-1896.
Assistant professor astrophysics, 1896-1897, associate professor, 1897-1898, Yerkes Observatory.
Director Allegheny Observatory, 1900-1904. Special engineer and expert work, Pittsburgh and Washington, 1898-1899.
Consulting expert to the John A. Brashear Company, 1901-1904. General manager Pressed Prism Plate Glass Company, 1904-1905.
Chief engineer American Window Glass Company, 1905-1908.
Consulting engineer, since 1908. President Miller Non-Corrosive Metal Company, since 1909. Director Pressed Prism Plate Glass Company, 1904-1913.
President board visitors Ohio State University Assistant editor Astrophysical Journal.
Associate editor Harper & Brothers Scientific Memoirs. Has served on numerous public service committees and commissions, and has published over 100 papers and reports in scientific publications, and society proceedings.
Patentee of over 250 inventions relating to manufacture of glass, steel, electric lights, railway appliances, machine tools, engineering instruments, wire working machinery, appliances, tires, et cetera Originator and designer vertical tower telescope, curved plate camera, fixed deviation spectroscope, polar reflecting heliostat, precision interferometers, and other novel forms of physical and astrophysical instruments.
Author of the hexaplex system of golf course design, and papers on economic subjects.
Has testified as technical expert in upwards of 200 patent suits in the United States and Canadian courts. Home: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Married Laura Poole, September 1893. Married second, Mildred Schinneller, July 1914.