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Thomas E. Murray was born on October 21, 1860, in Albany, New York, United States to an Irish family and was one of 12 children.
(A Series Of Addresses From June 1950 To May 1955.)
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Thomas E. Murray was born on October 21, 1860, in Albany, New York, United States to an Irish family and was one of 12 children.
Murray attended the public schools until he was nine years old, when, owing to the death of his father, he was compelled to go to work. Thereafter, he attended night school.
For two years Murray worked in the drafting rooms of local architects and engineers. He then served his machinist apprenticeship for four years in various shops in Albany, and in 1881 became an operating engineer at the pumping plant of the Albany Waterworks.
In 1887 Anthony N. Brady employed Murray to take charge of the power station of the Municipal Gas Company at Albany, and in that company his rise was rapid. He was soon in complete charge of the company's activities and was called into consultation in connection with other Brady properties, including the Troy City Railway Company, the Troy Electric Light Company, the Kings County Electric Light and Power Company, and the Albany Railway Company. He also had a part in consolidating Brady electric companies in Brooklyn and the formation of the Edison Electric Illuminating Company, later known as the Brooklyn Edison Company. During this period, too, his inventive genius, which was to secure for him over eleven hundred patents, began to assert itself.
In 1895, having been intrusted by Brady with the task of consolidating the electric properties in Manhattan, Murray moved to New York, and when, five years later, this consolidation was effected through the organization of the New York Edison Company, he was made second vice-president and general manager.
In 1913, he became vice-president, in 1924 senior vice-president, and finally, after the merging of the New York Edison Company and the Brooklyn Edison Company in 1928, vice-chairman of the board of directors. Under Murray's general direction many of the great electric power stations which supply the various boroughs of New York City were built. Among these are Waterside No. 1 and No. 2, Sherman Creek, Hell Gate, Gold Street, Hudson Avenue, and East River stations, and the Williamsburg power house. He was also the designer of steam-power plants in Albany, Utica, and Rochester, New York, as well as in Dayton, Ohio; and of hydroelectric-power plants, in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and in Trenton Falls and Cohoes, New York. It is believed that the total capacity of these plants is greater than that of those designed by any other man in the electrical industry.
Murray also organized and maintained supervision over several corporations of his own - Thomas E. Murray, Inc. , the Metropolitan Device Corporation, the Metropolitan Engineering Company, and the Murray Radiator Company. Although most of his earlier engineering and inventive work was in the electrical and gas-appliance fields, the influence of his activities has been felt in almost every phase of industry. His inventions were exceeded in number only by those of Thomas A. Edison and included water wall furnaces for steam boilers, electrical protection devices, copper radiators, cinder catchers, pulverized fuel equipment, and automatic welding. His method of welding shells was found to be the only one that could be used for the production of the 240 mm. mortar shell, and because of it he received high commendation from the War Department.
Among his publications were several technical works which include Electric Power Plants (1910), Power Stations (1922), and Applied Engineering (1928). Thomas E. Murray, I died on July 21, 1929, at "Wickapogue", his summer estate in Southampton, Long Island, New York.
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Murray was active in religious work, taking a prominent part in the affairs of the Roman Catholic Church, for which service membership in the orders of the Knights of St. Gregory and in the Knights of Malta was conferred on him.
Thomas E. Murray served as president of the Association of Edison Illuminating Companies; he was an active member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers for thirty-five years; and he was a fellow of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers.
In 1887 Thomas E. Murray married Catherine Bradley of Brooklyn, New York; the couple had eight children.