Charles Wallace Hunt

Hunt was born at Candor, New York, on October 13, 1841. He came into prominence as founder of the C. W. Hunt Company in West New Brighton in 1871, three years after he had settled in Staten Island and had started a retail coal business. Hunt was elected president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers for the year 1898–99, and was elected an Associate of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers in 1902. He died March 27, 1911, at Richmond County in Staten Island, New York. == Work ==

C.W. Hunt Company C.W. Hunt Company was a constructive engineering firm located in West New Brighton. The company made coal and ore-handling machinery, and build wharves, docks, storage warehouses, power stations, railways, cranes, etc. == Selected publications ==

• Coal Handling Machinery: No. 9306, Published 1893 by C. W. Hunt Company • Charles Wallace Hunt. ''American Society of Mechanical Engineers, President's Address 1898: The Engineer, His Work, His Ethics, His Pleasures.'' American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1898 • Charles Wallace Hunt. Manila Rope: Transmission and Hoisting, 1912. • Charles Wallace Hunt. Heat Transmission in Poor Conductors, 1913. == Selected patents ==

• Patent US708713 - Hoisting apparatus, 1902 • Patent US729868 - Hoisting apparatus, 1902 • Patent US796074 - Coal-chute, 1905 • Patent US1020607 - Motor-truck, 1910 • Patent US1048834 - Conveyer, 1910 == References ==