Edward Pierrepont Beckwith

Edward Pierrepont Beckwith was the son of Leonard Forbes and Margaretta Willoughby Pierrepont Beckwith and was born in New York April 27, 1877.[1]

Edward Pierrepont "Ned" Beckwith graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1901. He worked for General Electric, conducting some of the first experiments with tungsten as a filament for electric lamps. Additional experimentation included working on the purification of water, iron oxydation, and the use of mercury in silica tubes.[2]

Beckwith was an avid mountaineer and climbed the Swiss Alps and the Austrian Dolomites soon after graduation from university. He was elected a member of The Explorers Club in New York in 1930.[3] After he retired, he participated as an observer, navigator, and photographer on scientific expeditions, including the Carnegie Institute's Mount McKinley Cosmic Ray Expedition in 1932, the Rainbow Bridge-Monument Valley Expedition of 1937 (which mapped 2000 square miles in southern Utah and northern Arizona), and the 1939-40 Fairchild Tropical Expedition in the Philippines and the Dutch East Indies aboard Cheng Ho.[4]

Beckwith appeared in Who's Who of Engineering in 1922.[5]

Beckwith died on July 5, 1966 at the age of 89 died of a heart attack while driving his car alone.[6]

References
  1. "Edward Pierrepont Beckwith (1877-1966) - Find A Grave Memorial". Find a Grave.
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  3. Archival Finding Aide, The Edward Pierpont Beckwith Collection, 1904-1945. "Historical Note" (PDF). The Explorers Club. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
  4. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2015-07-18.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. Leonard, John William; Downs, Winfield Scott; Lewis, M. M. (1922). "Who's who in Engineering".
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