Charles F. Scott (engineer)

Charles F. Scott (Athens, Ohio, 1864-April 1, 1944) was an electrical engineer.

He graduated from Ohio State University in 1885, and joined the engineering staff of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company in Pittsburgh, PA, in 1888. He assisted the inventor Nikola Tesla with his work on the alternating-current induction motor.

He was president of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE later IEEE).^[1] He received the 1929 AIEE Edison Medal.

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IEEE Edison Medal

1926–1950	William D. Coolidge (1927) Frank B. Jewett (1928) Charles F. Scott (1929) Frank Conrad (1930) Edwin W. Rice (1931) Bancroft Gherardi (1932) Arthur Edwin Kennelly (1933) Willis R. Whitney (1934) Lewis B. Stillwell (1935) Alex Dow (1936) Gano Dunn (1937) Dugald C. Jackson (1938) Philip Torchio (1939) George Ashley Campbell (1940) John B. Whitehead (1941) Edwin H. Armstrong (1942) Vannevar Bush (1943) Ernst Alexanderson (1944) Philip Sporn (1945) Lee De Forest (1946) Joseph Slepian (1947) Morris E. Leeds (1948) Karl B. McEachron (1949) Otto B. Blackwell (1950)

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