The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1902-06-11
waiter s. moody.

AAOh thO EiotlIiCdi WOIlQ anu
Engineer" and is high compli-
ment to Mr.. Moody, who is a SON.
in-law of Mrs. B Gilmore, of this
city, having married Miss Florence
Gilmore:
Walter Sherman Moody was
born in Chelsea, Mass, a suburb
of Boston, in 1864. After the COM
pletion of his studies in the public
schools of his native city, he enter
ed the Massachusetts, Institute of
Technology in 1888, finishing his
course in electrical engineering in
1887, after which he was immed-
lately made an instructor in the
laboratories of Physics and Elec-
tricity at that institution. Not
wishing to make teaching profess
sion, Mr.. Moody resigned his posi-
ton in june. 1888, to accept an
offer from the Thomson Electric
Welding Company, of Lynn, Mass,
which had just been organized to
develop commercially the electric
heating aud welding of metals un-
der patents of Prof. EIihu Thomson.
The knowledge gained during
the four years in which Mr.. Moody
was assistant engineer with the
welding company was of exception
al value compared with any equal
period in his fourteen years expsr-
ience as an electrical designer. In
connection with the handling of
currents of extremely small pres
sure but enormous volumes, some
times exceeding 100000 amperes,
self-induction first became a CON-
mercial obstacle outside of the arts
of telegraphy and telephony, and
to CONFERENCE.-The all apparatus for
welding had to be designed for a
frequency much lower than that
prevailing at the time, which was
125 cycles higher.
AT the end of about four years
service with the welding company
Mr.. Moody resigned his position
to enter the engineering depart
ment of the Thomson. Houston
Company. and for the first few
months was engaged in the design
of direct-current machines, but
soon returned to more congenial
work on acknowledgement ap-
paratus.
For the past eight years most OF
Mr.. Moody's time has been devoted
to the design and manufacture of
the great number and variety of
transformers built in his depart.
ment, although a great diversity of
acknowledgements apparatus, suoh
as feeder regulators, reactive coils,
oondensers, fan motors. etc., come
under his charge. There have
been manufactured under Mr..
Moody's direction up to the pres
emit time nearly 100000 transform
ers. including over $500 designs,
the present rate of production be.
ing about 100000 kilowatts per an.
mum. The introduction into
America of the core" type of trans.
former was due to Mr.. Moody, and
his name is inseparably associated
with the development of the now
widely known al" transformer, as
manufactured by the Great Elec-
trio Company.
The "air-blast" type of trans
former was also first developed by
Mr.. Moody. There are in use at
present over 100000 kilowatts of
such transformers built to Mr..
Moody's designs. some operating
at as high as $4,000 volts, and in
Guiding among other such plants
as the Niagra & Buffalo transmits
sion, Metropoliton Railway Com
pany af New York City, Central
London Railway. Southern Cali.
fornia system and Cauvery trans
mission, India
Numerous suggestions have been
made to build transformers with
hollow conductors. the idea prob
ably originating with Prof. Row
and several years ago, but Mr..
Mo ody is the pioneer in redu ing
he same to practice. AS result,
n my such transformers are now in
use where large units with low
working voltages for eleotrolytic
work are required. Transformers
Of this description have been made
IN capacities ranging from $50 to
200 kilowatts, and are EMPLOYED
N the manufacture of carbide of
calcium, carborumdum. pranhite