Background
Miller was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Joseph Kempster Miller and Eliza (Blanchard) Miller, he spent his childhood in Washington, District of Columbia before earning his engineering degree from Cornell University in 1893.
Miller was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Joseph Kempster Miller and Eliza (Blanchard) Miller, he spent his childhood in Washington, District of Columbia before earning his engineering degree from Cornell University in 1893.
Cornell University.
He is known for his many writings in the field of electrical engineering, electrical design, and the early telephone industry. His best known work was, considered for many years to be the seminal textbook on early telephone design and function. After graduating from Cornell, Miller worked for a time in the United States Patent Office as an examiner, then worked as an electrical engineer for the Western Telephone Construction Company.
He then formed his own engineering consulting company with Samuel McKeen in 1905 in Chicago, Illinois In 1899 American Electrician published Miller"s book, At 518 pages and many dozens of illustrations, it detailed nearly everything known about the telephone industry at the time.
Three more printings followed, in 1900, 1903 and 1905. The last two editions were published by McGraw.
By the last edition (1905), entirely updated and rewritten, it had grown to 888 pages. Credited in 1928, along with F.R. Welles and Charles A. Brown, with donating 100 acres of land that would become Pilot Butte State Scenic View in Bend, Oregon.
Miller died on November 22, 1933 in Pasadena, California, at the age of 63.