Report Upon New York's Water Supply: With Particular Reference to the Need of Procuring Additional Sources and Their Probable Cost, with Works ... Ownership Made to Bird S. Coler, Comptroller
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On the Safeguarding of Life in Theaters: Being a Study from the Standpoint of an Engineer
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On the safeguarding of life in theaters; being a study from the standpoint of an engineer
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Review of investigations for the improvement of the China grand canal made under contract dated--Nov. 20, 1917, between the Chinese government and the American international corporation
Report On the Enlargement and Improvement of the Baltimore Water Supply
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Report on the Enlargement and Improvement of the Baltimore Water Supply - Primary Source Edition
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Fire-Stream Tables: For Use of the Inspectors of the Associated Factory Mutual Insurance Companies (Classic Reprint)
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The following tables are based on these experiments, and I present them with entire confidence in their accuracy; but would remark that a table might be accurate for one kind of hose or nozzle and not give accu rate results for hose or nozzles of different degrees of smoothness of finish. To remove such uncertainty, so far as nozzles were concerned, I experimented, in all, on about forty different nozzles, of various sizes.
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On the proposed use of a portion of the Hetch Hetchy, Eleanor and Cherry valleys within and near to the boundaries of the Stanislaus U. S. National ... impounding Tuolumne River flood waters and
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Regulation of Elevation and Discharge of the Great Lakes: Designs for Gates, Sluices, Locks, Etc., In the Niagara and St. Clair Rivers (Classic Reprint)
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The preservation of Niagara Falls. Studies of the variation of rainfall from year to year.
Studies of the amount Of Obstruction of outflow from the several lakes caused by ice-gorges.
A determination of the amount and rate of evaporation from the surface of each Great Lake.
The accuracy of the recorded measurements of lake elevations and discharges.
The rate, and amount in recent years, of earth-tilt in the Great Lakes region.
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John Ripley Freeman was an American civil and hydraulic engineer. He is known for the design of several waterworks and was president of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and presidents of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Background
He was born in West Bridgton, Maine, the son of Nathaniel Dyer and Mary Elizabeth (Morse) Freeman. He was the first of two children, the other child dying in infancy.
His father was a direct descendant of Samuel Freeman, who emigrated to New England with Governor Winthrop's colony in 1630 and settled in Watertown, Massachussets; his mother descended from Samuel Morse of Dedham, Massachussets, who emigrated to New England in 1635.
His forefathers were either sea captains or men in public affairs in Maine, and one of them, Nathan Freeman, founded the colony of Shakers in Gorham, Maine.
West Bridgton at the time of Freeman's birth was a small farming community which had been settled fifty years earlier by men whose principal occupation was lumbering in the winter season and farming in the summer.
Education
His mother was determined that her son should receive a better education than he could obtain in the district schools in his vicinity and took him to Lawrence, Massachussets, for some of his early schooling and also to Portland, Maine.
He entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the civil-engineering course in 1872, four years after the first class had been graduated, and was awarded the degree of B. S. in 1876.
Career
During his vacations he was employed in Lawrence, Massachussets, by the Essex Company, a water-power company, to which he returned after graduation, soon becoming principal assistant engineer to the company and personal assistant to Hiram F. Mills, the company's chief engineer and one of the prominent hydraulic engineers of his day.
While thus employed he was brought into frequent contact with James B. Francis, a prominent hydraulic engineer, and with Charles S. Storrow, treasurer of the Essex Company, and a graduate of Harvard at the head of the class that contained Oliver Wendell Holmes and the famous mathematician Benjamin Peirce.
Freeman used to say that one trained under such men as Mills, Francis, and Storrow was "tempted upward. " He had the qualities, however, to ensure success regardless of such training.
After spending ten years in Lawrence under Mills, whose severe discipline and insistence upon accuracy doubtless influenced him greatly, he resigned to become engineer and special inspector for the Associated Factory-Mutual Fire Insurance Companies of Boston.
His work with these companies was so outstanding, particularly because of his thorough investigation of fire-stream hydraulics, that it brought him to the attention of high insurance officials, and after ten years with the Boston companies he was invited to become president and treasurer of a large group of similar companies with headquarters in Providence, Rhod Island, a position he held for the rest of his life.
During this period these insurance companies increased their risks from $65, 000, 000 to about $3, 000, 000, 000. His arrangement with the companies permitted him to devote half of his time to private engineering practice, but much of his private engineering had to do with water supplies and other subjects closely connected with fire-insurance problems. His Report upon New York's Water Supply (1900) and Report of the Commission on Additional Water Supply for the City of New York (1903) brought him into general public attention. This was followed by membership on engineering boards reporting to the president of the United States on the choice between a sea-level and lock canal at Panama, consultant service for the Chinese Government on improvement of the Grand Canal in China, and membership on the engineering board of review of the sanitary district of Chicago.
He was chief engineer in charge of investigations for damming the Charles River between Cambridge and Boston, Massachussets, resulting in the construction of one of the most attractive water parks in the world, and served on boards for additional water supplies for Mexico City, Los Angeles, Baltimore, San Francisco, and many other cities in the United States. He also served as consultant to the Aluminum Company of America and other commercial companies on water-power developments.
Freeman was twice offered and declined the professorship of civil engineering at Harvard and in 1907 was asked by the retiring president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at the request of its governing body, if he might be considered for election to the presidency of that Institute, which honor he declined. He, however, served forty years as a member of its Corporation and contributed liberally of his advice.
Further evidence of his interest in engineering education is shown by the establishment during his life of three funds of $25, 000 each, the income of which might be used for traveling scholarships in engineering.
Two noteworthy books were inspired and published under his direction and largely at his expense, Hydraulic Laboratory Practice (1929), a book of 868 pages relating to hydraulic laboratories in Europe, and the book entitled Earthquake Damage and Earthquake Insurance (1932). Another publication was his extensive report upon the Regulation of Elevation and Discharge of the Great Lakes (1926).
Forty-seven papers and reports by him were printed either in separate documents or in various publications, two of them having nearly a thousand pages each. Freeman had many qualities conducive to success.
His physical strength was apparent from a glance at his broad shoulders and deep chest; his endurance enabled him to work twice as many hours a day as the average man, and his persistence in taking nothing for granted made him investigate thoroughly everything that he undertook.
He also had the vision to foresee all important factors that might affect a problem under consideration. In his later years he was a dominant character in any group because of his thoroughness, precision, good memory, and logical mind. The problems of insurance and engineering were always predominant in his thought.
Occasionally he was disappointed because he could not convince the public of the value of his ideas.
His early home life was in an atmosphere where religion and public affairs were keenly discussed and during his earlier life he was active in the affairs of the Unitarian Church and always retained a genuine interest in all that pertained to religious and moral issues.
Membership
He was a member of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics during World War I, and served as chairman from 1918–1919.
Freeman was elected Honorary Member Phi Beta Kappa at Brown University in 1901; Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1918; Honorary Member of the Marsaryk Academy of Works, Czecho-Slovakia in 1926; Ehrenbürger (Honorary Member) der Badischen Technischen Hochschule, Karlsruhe, Germany in January 1929; Mitglied des Wissenschaftlichen Beirats des Forschungs-Institutes in München und Walchcnsee, Bavaria, Germany in January 1931; and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Interests
Art, the drama, fine literature, or athletic sports apparently held no interest for him. He had a remarkable command of language on topics that interested him. He was public-spirited and interested in all matters he believed to be for the common good.
Connections
Freeman was married, on December 27, 1887, to Elizabeth Farwell Clarke. He died at his home in Providence survived by his wife and by five of his children: Clarke, Hovey, John, Evert, and Mary Elizabeth, Two sons, Roger and Nathaniel, predeceased him.