The journal of the American-Irish Historical Society, Vol. VIII, 1909Various
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The journal of the American-Irish Historical Society, Vol. VIII, 1909
Various
American-Irish Historical Society -- Periodicals; Ethnology -- United States -- Periodicals; Irish Americans -- Periodicals
KELLEY, JAMES DOUGLAS JERROLD, 25 East Eighty-third Street, New York
City; Commander, United States Navy.
KELLEHER, DANIEL, 1116 Spring Street, Seattle, Washington; member of
the law firm of Bausman & Kelleher, Alaska Building, Seattle, and
director of the Seattle National Bank, Bank for Savings and State Bank
of Seattle.
KELLY, DANIEL E., attorney at law, Salyer Block, Valparaiso, Ind.
KELLY, EUGENE, Templecourt Building, New York City.
KELLY, GERTRUDE B., M. D., 130 East Twenty-seventh Street, New York
City.
KELLY, JOHN FORREST, PH. D., Pittsfield, Mass.; born near
Carrick-on-Suir, Ireland. He was educated in Stevens Institute of
Technology, Hoboken, N. J., received the degree of B. L. in 1878 and
that of Ph. D. in 1881. His first occupation was as assistant to
Thomas A. Edison, in Menlo Park laboratory, his work then principally
relating to the chemistry of rare earths. Late in 1879 Mr. Kelly
became electrical engineer of the New York branch of the Western
Electric Company. This was the time when the telephone was being
generally introduced, and when dynamos were being first applied to
telegraphic purposes. In the construction and installment of
instruments for telegraphy and telephones and of such measuring
instruments as were then known, Mr. Kelly received a thorough
training. In 1882 he became laboratory assistant to Edward Weston,
then chief electrician of the United States Electric Lighting Company,
and, with the exception of a year which he spent in connection with
the Remingtons, Mr. Kelly continued his association with Mr. Weston
until July, 1886. Some of the most important work, such as the
research which ended in the discovery of high resistance alloys of
very low or even negative temperature co-efficients, were
substantially carried out by Mr. Kelly under general directions from
Mr. Weston, whom Mr. Kelly succeeded as chief electrician of the
United States Electric Lighting Company, which, in 1889, passed to the
Westinghouse interests; but Mr. Kelly retained his position as chief
electrician until January, 1892, when he resigned to join William
Stanley in experimental work. The work done by Mr. Kelly, in this
connection, gave a great impetus to the alternating current business.
Mr. Kelly’s inventive work is partially represented by eighty patents.
The art of building transformers and generators of alternating
currents was revolutionized, and Mr. Kelly and his colleagues were the
first to put polyphase motors into actual commercial service. That
success naturally led to long-distance transmission work, and the
first long-distance transmission plants in California (indeed the
first in the world), were undertaken on Mr. Kelly’s recommendation and
advice. He was the first to make a hysteretically stable steel, a
matter of vastly more importance than the comparatively spectacular
transmission work. Mr.
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