Addams Stratton McAllister, Ph.D. (24 February 1875, Covington, Va., USA

Covington, Virginia

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 - 26 November 1946, Clifton Forge, Va.) was an American

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  electrical engineer and editor.

He was educated at Pennsylvania State College

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 (B.S. 1898; E.E., 1900) and at Cornell

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 (M.M.E., 1901; Ph.D., 1905).

He was employed by the Berwind-White Coal Mining Company in 1898 and by the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company in 1899. He was associate editor (1905-12) and thereafter editor of the Electrical World. He contributed many articles on engineering subjects to technical publications. In 1915 he was president of the Illuminating Engineering Society. He wrote:

• Alternating Current Motors (1906; third edition, 1909)
• Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers (1907)
• The Descendants of John Thomson