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American electrical, mechanical and consulting engineer, educator, chief of research for the Detroit Edison Co., now <a href="/wiki/DTE_Electric_Company" title="DTE Electric Company">DTE Electric Company</a>, author, and inventor, who was awarded the <a href="/wiki/John_Fritz_Medal" title="John Fritz Medal">John Fritz Medal</a> posthumously in 1940. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clarence_Floyd_Hirshfeld&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Youth,_education_and_early_career"><span id="Youth.2C_education_and_early_career"></span>Youth, education and early career</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clarence_Floyd_Hirshfeld&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Youth, education and early career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Hirshfeld was born in San Francisco in 1881, son of Charles Hirshfeld and Lotta (McCarthy) Hirshfeld.<sup id="cite_ref-WSD_1936_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WSD_1936-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He obtained his BSc in electrical engineering at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_California" title="University of California">University of California</a> in 1902, and later his MA in mechanical engineering from <a href="/wiki/Cornell_University" title="Cornell University">Cornell University</a> in 1905.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At Cornell University Hirshfeld had started his career in 1903 as instructor at its Sibley College of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanic Arts, now <a href="/wiki/Cornell_University_College_of_Engineering" title="Cornell University College of Engineering">Cornell University College of Engineering</a>. There he served until 1914 working his way up to assistant professor and eventually Professor of mechanical engineering. In those days he had also started his own consultancy practice.<sup id="cite_ref-WSD_1936_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WSD_1936-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Further_career_and_acknowledgment">Further career and acknowledgment</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clarence_Floyd_Hirshfeld&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Further career and acknowledgment"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1913 Hirshfeld left Cornell University for the industry. He joined the Detroit Edison Company, now <a href="/wiki/DTE_Electric_Company" title="DTE Electric Company">DTE Electric Company</a>, where he was appointed chief of its research department. In <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a> he took a leave of absence to serve at the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army_Ordnance_Corps" title="United States Army Ordnance Corps">United States Ordnance Department</a> in the rank of Major and Lieutenant Colonel.<sup id="cite_ref-WSD_1936_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WSD_1936-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Afterwards Hirshfeld continued to run his Detroit Edison Company's research department. He directed researches in a wide variety of fields including "problems dealing with the design, construction, operation and maintenance of steam-electric power plants and the operation and interconnection of the electrical system; industrial electric heating and other load-building efforts; disposal of industrial waste; electric cable deterioration: electric welding; development of electric furnaces, and new methods of developing electrical energy."<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>From 1932 to 1939, in the last seven years of his life, he directed development of <a href="/wiki/PCC_streetcar" title="PCC streetcar">PCC streetcar</a> as chief engineer. In his days these form of transportation was introduced in cities, such as Toronto, Brooklyn, Pittsburgh, Washington, Baltimore, Chicago, San Diego and Los Angeles.<sup id="cite_ref-TEEIB_1939_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TEEIB_1939-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1932 Hirshfeld obtained his Doctorate in Engineering at <a href="/wiki/Rensselaer_Polytechnic_Institute" title="Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute">Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1940, he was posthumously awarded the <a href="/wiki/John_Fritz_Medal" title="John Fritz Medal">John Fritz Medal</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Selected_publications">Selected publications</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clarence_Floyd_Hirshfeld&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Selected publications"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Hirshfeld, Clarence Floyd, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/engineeringtherm00hirsrich">Engineering thermodynamics</a>,</i> New York, D. Van Nostrand company, 1910.</li> <li>Hirshfeld, Clarence Floyd and Tomlinson Carlile Ulbricht, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/gaspowerhirshfel00hirsrich">Gas Paower</a>. New York, Wiley, 1913.</i></li> <li>Hirshfeld, Clarence Floyd and Tomlinson Carlile Ulbricht, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/steampower01hirs">Steam power</a>.</i> New York, J. Wiley & sons, inc., 1916.</li> <li>Barnard, William Nichols, Frank Oakes Ellenwood, and Clarence Floyd Hirshfeld. <i>Heat-power engineering.</i> Volume 2. Wiley, 1935.</li></ul> <dl><dt>Articles, a selection</dt></dl> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFHirshfeldBerry1922" class="citation journal cs1"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Hirshfeld, Clarence Floyd</a>; Berry, C. H. (1922-12-04). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/sizestandardizat00hirsiala#page/n1/mode/1up">"Size Standardization by Preferred Numbers"</a>. <i>Mechanical Engineering</i>. <b>44</b> (12). New York, USA: <a href="/wiki/The_American_Society_of_Mechanical_Engineers" class="mw-redirect" title="The American Society of Mechanical Engineers">The American Society of Mechanical Engineers</a>: 791–.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Mechanical+Engineering&rft.atitle=Size+Standardization+by+Preferred+Numbers&rft.volume=44&rft.issue=12&rft.pages=791-&rft.date=1922-12-04&rft.aulast=Hirshfeld&rft.aufirst=Clarence+Floyd&rft.au=Berry%2C+C.+H.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fstream%2Fsizestandardizat00hirsiala%23page%2Fn1%2Fmode%2F1up&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClarence+Floyd+Hirshfeld" class="Z3988"></span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.forgottenbooks.com/en/download/SizeStandardizationbyPreferredNumbers_10296778.pdf">[1]</a></li> <li>Hirshfeld, Clarence Floyd "Disturbing effects of horizontal acceleration." <i>Electric Railway Presidents' Conference Committee,</i> 1932.</li> <li>Hirshfeld, Clarence Floyd, and G. U. Moran. "Performance of Modern Steam-Generating Units." <i>ASME Trans.(Fuels and Steam Power Section)</i> 55 (1933): 117.</li></ul> <dl><dt>Patents, a selection</dt> <dd></dd></dl> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.google.tl/patents/US1958577">Patent US1958577 - Apparatus for dust separation</a>, 1934</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.google.com.gi/patents/US2010668">Patent US2010668 - Tire for rail vehicles</a>, 1935</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://patents.google.com/patent/US2124350">Patent US2124350 - Wheel assembly</a>, 1938</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.google.ch/patents/US1923147">Patent US1923147 - Electric cable and method of operating the same</a>, 1933</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.google.com.pg/patents/US2207151">Patent US2207151 - Brake shoe</a>, 1940</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.us/patents/US2243068">Patent US2243068 - Braking system</a>, 1941</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clarence_Floyd_Hirshfeld&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width reflist-columns-2"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-WSD_1936-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-WSD_1936_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-WSD_1936_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-WSD_1936_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Winfield Scott Downs, <i>Encyclopedia of American biography: New series,</i> American Historical Company. 1936. p. 182</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">ASME. <i>Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers,</i> Volume 62, 1941. page 240</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"DR. 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title="Elihu Thomson">Elihu Thomson</a></li> <li>1917 : <a href="/wiki/Henry_Marion_Howe" title="Henry Marion Howe">Henry Marion Howe</a></li> <li>1918 : <a href="/wiki/J._Waldo_Smith" title="J. 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Schneider</a></li> <li>1923 : <a href="/wiki/Guglielmo_Marconi" title="Guglielmo Marconi">Guglielmo Marconi</a></li> <li>1924 : <a href="/wiki/Ambrose_Swasey" title="Ambrose Swasey">Ambrose Swasey</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1925–1949</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>1925 : <a href="/wiki/John_Frank_Stevens" title="John Frank Stevens">John Frank Stevens</a></li> <li>1926 : <a href="/wiki/Edward_Dean_Adams" title="Edward Dean Adams">Edward Dean Adams</a></li> <li>1927 : <a href="/wiki/Elmer_Ambrose_Sperry" title="Elmer Ambrose Sperry">Elmer Ambrose Sperry</a></li> <li>1928 : <a href="/wiki/John_Joseph_Carty" class="mw-redirect" title="John Joseph Carty">John Joseph Carty</a></li> <li>1929 : <a href="/wiki/Herbert_Clark_Hoover" class="mw-redirect" title="Herbert Clark Hoover">Herbert Clark Hoover</a></li> <li>1930 : <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Modjeski" title="Ralph Modjeski">Ralph Modjeski</a></li> <li>1931 : <a href="/wiki/David_Watson_Taylor" class="mw-redirect" title="David Watson Taylor">David Watson Taylor</a></li> <li>1932 : <a href="/wiki/Mihajlo_Idvorski_Pupin" class="mw-redirect" title="Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin">Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin</a></li> <li>1933 : <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Cowan_Jackling" class="mw-redirect" title="Daniel Cowan Jackling">Daniel Cowan Jackling</a></li> <li>1934 : <a href="/wiki/John_Ripley_Freeman" title="John Ripley Freeman">John Ripley Freeman</a> (posthumous)</li> <li>1935 : <a href="/wiki/Frank_Julian_Sprague" class="mw-redirect" title="Frank Julian Sprague">Frank Julian Sprague</a> (posthumous)</li> <li>1936 : <a href="/wiki/William_Frederick_Durand" class="mw-redirect" title="William Frederick Durand">William Frederick Durand</a></li> <li>1937 : <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Newell_Talbot" title="Arthur Newell Talbot">Arthur Newell Talbot</a></li> <li>1938 : <a href="/wiki/Paul_Dyer_Merica" title="Paul Dyer Merica">Paul Dyer Merica</a></li> <li>1939 : <a href="/wiki/Frank_Baldwin_Jewett" class="mw-redirect" title="Frank Baldwin Jewett">Frank Baldwin Jewett</a></li> <li>1940 : <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Clarence Floyd Hirshfeld</a> (posthumous)</li> <li>1941 : <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Budd" title="Ralph Budd">Ralph Budd</a></li> <li>1942 : <a href="/wiki/Everette_Lee_DeGolyer" title="Everette Lee DeGolyer">Everette Lee DeGolyer</a></li> <li>1943 : <a href="/wiki/Willis_Rodney_Whitney" class="mw-redirect" title="Willis Rodney Whitney">Willis Rodney Whitney</a></li> <li>1944 : <a href="/wiki/Charles_F._Kettering" title="Charles F. Kettering">Charles F. Kettering</a></li> <li>1945 : <a href="/wiki/John_L._Savage" title="John L. Savage">John Lucian Savage</a></li> <li>1946 : <a href="/wiki/Zay_Jeffries" title="Zay Jeffries">Zay Jeffries</a></li> <li>1947 : <a href="/wiki/Lewis_Warrington_Chubb" title="Lewis Warrington Chubb">Lewis Warrington Chubb</a></li> <li>1948 : <a href="/wiki/Theodore_von_K%C3%A1rm%C3%A1n" title="Theodore von Kármán">Theodore von Kármán</a></li> <li>1949 : <a href="/wiki/Charles_Metcalf_Allen" title="Charles Metcalf Allen">Charles Metcalf Allen</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1950–1974</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>1950 : <a href="/wiki/Walter_H._Aldridge" class="mw-redirect" title="Walter H. Aldridge">Walter H. Aldridge</a></li> <li>1951 : <a href="/wiki/Vannevar_Bush" title="Vannevar Bush">Vannevar Bush</a></li> <li>1952 : <a href="/wiki/Ervin_George_Bailey" class="mw-redirect" title="Ervin George Bailey">Ervin George Bailey</a></li> <li>1953 : <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_F._Fairless" class="mw-redirect" title="Benjamin F. Fairless">Benjamin F. Fairless</a></li> <li>1954 : <a href="/wiki/William_Embry_Wrather" title="William Embry Wrather">William Embry Wrather</a></li> <li>1955 : <a href="/w/index.php?title=Harry_Alonzo_Winne&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Harry Alonzo Winne (page does not exist)">Harry Alonzo Winne</a></li> <li>1956 : <a href="/wiki/Philip_Sporn" title="Philip Sporn">Philip Sporn</a></li> <li>1957 : <a href="/wiki/Ben_Moreell" title="Ben Moreell">Ben Moreell</a></li> <li>1958 : <a href="/wiki/John_R._Suman" class="mw-redirect" title="John R. Suman">John R. Suman</a></li> <li>1959 : <a href="/wiki/Mervin_Kelly" title="Mervin Kelly">Mervin J. Kelly</a></li> <li>1960 : <a href="/wiki/Gwilym_A._Price" title="Gwilym A. Price">Gwilym A. Price</a></li> <li>1961 : <a href="/wiki/Stephen_D._Bechtel" class="mw-redirect" title="Stephen D. Bechtel">Stephen D. Bechtel</a></li> <li>1962 : <a href="/wiki/Crawford_H._Greenewalt" class="mw-redirect" title="Crawford H. Greenewalt">Crawford H. Greenewalt</a></li> <li>1963 : <a href="/wiki/Hugh_L._Dryden" class="mw-redirect" title="Hugh L. Dryden">Hugh L. Dryden</a></li> <li>1964 : <a href="/wiki/Lucius_D._Clay" title="Lucius D. Clay">Lucius D. Clay</a></li> <li>1965 : <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Kappel" title="Frederick Kappel">Frederick Kappel</a></li> <li>1966 : <a href="/wiki/Warren_K._Lewis" title="Warren K. Lewis">Warren K. Lewis</a></li> <li>1967 : <a href="/wiki/Walker_L._Cisler" class="mw-redirect" title="Walker L. Cisler">Walker L. 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