Schuyler Wheeler

Schuyler Skaats Wheeler (May 17, 1860 – April 20, 1923) was an American engineer who invented the two-blade electric fan in 1882 at age 22.[1] He was awarded the John Scott Medal of The Franklin Institute in 1904 and was president of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers from 1905 to 1906.[2]

Wheeler was born in Massachusetts. His two-bladed electric fan was produced by the Crocker and Curtis Electric Motor Company. He married Amy Sutton on October 11, 1898[3]. He died of angina pectoris at his home in Manhattan. [4]

References

  1. ^ "Cooling Trends - How the electric fan and air conditioning changed the way our ancestors kept their cool". http://www.familytreemagazine.com/articles/nov07/fans.asp. Retrieved 2007-12-31. 
  2. ^ "Schuyler Wheeler". IEEE Global History Network. IEEE. http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Schuyler_Wheeler. Retrieved 08 August 2011. 
  3. ^ "New York Observer, Volume 76". http://books.google.com/books?id=1bdLAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22schuyler%20skaats%20wheeler%22%20wife&as_brr=0&pg=PA510#v=onepage&q=%22schuyler%20skaats%20wheeler%22%20wife&f=false. Retrieved 2010-07-21. 
  4. ^ Staff report (April 21, 1923). Dr. S. S. Wheeler, Inventor, Dead; President of Crocker-Wheeler Co. Dies Suddenly at His Park Av. Home at 63. Engineer and physicist, founder of United Engineering Society. Presented Latimer-Clark Library to American Institute. New York Times