John Fritz Medal Collection

Henry M. Howe, American metallurgist

John Fritz, American mechanical engineer
John Fritz (1822-1913), American mechanical engineer. Fritz was mainly concerned with iron and steel manufacturing. He was one of the first to use the Bessemer process for making cheap, pure steel

Charles Talbot Porter, US engineer
Charles Talbot Porter (1826-1910), American mechanical engineer. He worked mainly on engines, studying their rotational speeds and ways of controlling inertial forces

Elihu Thomson (1853-1937), American engineer
Elihu Thomson (1853-1937), American electrical engineer. He moved from England to the USA when young. After graduating, he taught chemistry and physics

George Westinghouse, American engineer
George Westinghouse (1846-1914), American electri- cal engineer. Westinghouse became a prolific inventor after serving in both the army and the navy during the American Civil War

Robert W. Hunt, US engineer
Captain Robert Woolston Hunt (1838-1923), American mechanical engineer. Hunt recognised the importance of imposing inspection standards and rigorous testing of industrial materials

John Edson Sweet, US engineer

James Douglas, US metallurgist
James Douglas (1837-1918), American metallurgist and mining engineer. Douglas was the co-inventor of the Hunt-Douglas process for extracting copper

Thomas Edison, American inventor
Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), American inventor, aged 24. Despite receiving little formal education, Edison filed over 1000 patents during his life, more than any other inventor

Alexander Graham Bell, British inventor
Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), British scientist and inventor. Bell was born in Scotland but moved to Boston, USA in 1871, to lecture on teaching the deaf to speak

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