Ervin George Bailey (December 25, 1880 – December 18, 1974) was an American

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, founding president of Bailey Meter Company, manufacturer of industrial meters and controls, and inventor.Bailey, E. G. (Ervin George), 1880-1974
at socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu. Accessed 2017-09-07. He was recipient of the 1942

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, and served as 67th president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Bailey was born in

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as son of George W. Bailey and Ruthetta (Butler) Bailey He obtained his MSc in Mechanical Engineering from the

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in 1903. After his graduation he started his career at the Fairmont Coal Company in Fairmont, West Virginia as

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. In 1907 to 1909 he was head of the coal department of Arthur D. Little Inc. in Boston, and from 1909 to 1915 mechanical engineer and partner in the Fuel Testing Corporation in Boston. In 1916 he founded the Bailey Meter Company in Boston, which he moved to Cleveland, Ohio in 1919. The Bailey Meter Company grew out to a major manufacturer of industrial meters and controls. Bailey obtained 141 patents for his inventions. Among the many engineering honors he received, the

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awarded him the Longstreth Award in 1930, the ASME the

in 1942,Ervin G. Bailey , The Franklin Institute
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the

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in 1952. Bailey served as president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in the year 1948-49.

Selected publications

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Patent US1107740 - Radii-averaging instrument
'' 1914. *
Patent US1190701 - Integrator
'' 1915. *
Patent US 1823927 A - Device for retaining furnace wall blocks against tubes
'' 1927-31 *
Patent US1939650 - Furnace wall
'' 1933. *
Patent US3346672 - Method for heating solid inorganic material
1966.

References

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