Henry Turner Eddy

Henry Turner Eddy (June 9, 1844 – December 11, 1921) was a United States science and engineering educator. He was president of the University of Cincinnati and the Rose Polytechnic Institute.

Henry Turner Eddy
Born	June 9, 1844 Stoughton, Massachusetts
Died	December 11, 1921 (aged 77) Minneapolis, Minnesota
Education	Yale University Cornell University
Occupation	Educator
Spouse(s)	Sebella Elizabeth Taylor ​ ​ (m. 1870)​
Children	5
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Biography

Henry Turner Eddy was born in Stoughton, Massachusetts on June 9, 1844. He was educated at Yale and later took a further scientific course in Berlin and Paris. He married Sebella Elizabeth Taylor on January 4, 1870 and they had five children.[1]

In 1872, Turner received the first Ph.D. awarded by Cornell University. After holding a professorship in mathematics, astronomy and civil engineering at the University of Cincinnati 1874-90, and acting as dean of the academic faculty of that institution (1874–77, 1884–89), he became its president in 1890. He was also president of the Rose Polytechnic Institute at Terre Haute, Indiana, from 1891 to 1894, when he accepted the chair of engineering and mechanics at the University of Minnesota.[1] He became dean of the graduate school of the University of Minnesota in 1906, and professor and dean emeritus in 1912.

He died in Minneapolis on December 11, 1921.[2][3]

Works

• Analytical Geometry (1874)
• Researches in Graphical Statics (1878)
• Thermodynamics (1879)
• Neue Constructionen aus der graphischen Statik (1880)
• Maximum Stresses under Concentrated Loads (1890)
• Theory of the Flexure and Strength of Rectangular Flat Plates Applied to Reinforced Concrete Floor Slabs (1913)
• Concrete-Steel Construction (1914)

He wrote numerous scientific and technical papers. In 1893 in Chicago, he read a paper Modern Graphical Developments at the International Mathematical Congress held in connection with the World's Columbian Exposition.[4]

Notes

1. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. XIII. James T. White & Company. 1906. pp. 445–446. Retrieved August 23, 2020 – via Google Books.
2. "Subjects of Biographies". Dictionary of American Biography. Comprehensive Index. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1990.
3. "Henry Turner Eddy Dies". Asheville Citizen-Times. Minneapolis, Minnesota. December 12, 1921. p. 1. Retrieved August 23, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
4. "Modern Graphical Developments by Henry T. Eddy". Mathematical papers read at the International Mathematical Congress held in connection with the World's Columbian Exposition. NY: Macmillan as publisher for the AMS. 1896. pp. 58–71.

References

• Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Eddy, Henry Turner" . Encyclopedia Americana.