Robert Beckwith Gray

Background

Gray, Robert Beckwith was born on April 9, 1912 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Edward Townsend and Sarah Jean (Lomison) Gray.

Education

Student, Cornell University, 1934. Electrical engineer, University Pittsburgh, 1941.

Career

Lab assistant, Westinghouse Research Magnetics, 1935-1938; chief physicist, Erie (Pennsylvania) Resistor Corporation, 1941-1946; supervisor research, American Meter Company, Erie, 1946-1954; research engineer, Erie Resistor/Erie Technology Products, Erie, 1954-1965; research engineer, Acme Electric Corporation, Cuba, New York, 1965-1967; engineer, Hartman Metal Fabricators/Hartman Material Handling Systems, Victor, New York, 1967-1985; consultant, Technology Superior vena cava syndrome, Erie, since 1981.

Achievements

• Registered profile engineer, New York.

Membership

Initiator, secretary textbook committee Erie Engineering Societies Council, 1957-1958. Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, American Association of Physics Teachers, Pennsylvania Inventors Association (secretary 1989-1995), Sigma Xi, Sigma Pi Sigma.

Connections

Married Mary Elizabeth Ann Lynch, January 17, 1942. Children: William E., Rebecca Jean Fluegel, Robert F., Thomas O., Barry J.

Father:

Edward Townsend Gray

Mother:

Sarah Jean (Lomison) Gray

Spouse:

Mary Elizabeth Ann Lynch

child:

Thomas O. Gray

child:

Barry J. Gray

child:

Robert F. Gray

child:

Rebecca Jean Fluegel Gray

child:

William E. Gray