The fostering of an engineer

Doctor Chubb has emphasized my own personal role in the technical developments which form the basis for this much-esteemed Lamme Medal Award. However, man does not work in a vacuum, but lives in an environment of things, men, and ideas, which react on him and upon which he reacts. My own environment during my professional life has, in large part, been that aggregation of buildings, tools, money, men, ideas, and traditions, known as the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, a corporation organized for manufacturing electrical machinery for the profit of its stockholders. That environment must have been propitious, or highly favorable to the development of such scientific talents as I had, or I probably would not be on this platform today. Perhaps a few words about my first experience with this organization will be of interest.