Herbert Bristol Dwight

American-Canadian electrical engineer

Herbert Bristol Dwight (8 September 1885, Geneva, Illinois – 30 June 1975) was an American-Canadian electrical engineer.^[1]

Dwight was educated in elementary and secondary schools in Ontario, attended Toronto University for two years, and then attended McGill University, graduating there in 1909 with a B.Sc. in electrical engineering. He developed a method for calculating the skin effect resistance ratio of a tubular conductor^[1]^[2] and derived formulas for mutual inductance of coils with parallel axes, repulsion of coils with parallel axes, and self-inductance of long cylindrical coils.^[3]

He was an Invited Speaker at the ICM in Toronto in 1924.^[4]

Selected publications

Transmission line formulas for electrical engineers and engineering students. Constable & co. 1913.
Constant-voltage transmission; a discussion of the use of synchronous motors for eliminating variation in voltage in electric power systems. Wiley. 1915.
Transmission line formulas; a collection of methods of calculation for the electrical design of transmission lines. D. Van Nostrand company. 1925.
Tables of integrals and other mathematical data. A series of mathematical texts. The Macmillan company. 1934.
Electrical coils and conductors, their electrical characteristics and theory. 1945.
Electrical elements of power transmission lines. 1954.

References

^ ^a ^b Leonard, John William; Downs, Winfield Scott; Lewis, M. M. (1922). "Dwight, Herbert Bristol". Who's Who in Engineering: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries 1922–1923. Vol. 1. p. 394.
^ Dwight, Herbert B. (1918). "Skin effect in tubular and flat conductors". Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. 37 (2): 1379–1403. doi:10.1109/T-AIEE.1918.4765575. S2CID 51636838.
^ Dwight, H. B. (1919). "Some new formulas for reactance coils". Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. 38 (2): 1675–1696. doi:10.1109/T-AIEE.1919.4765652. S2CID 51653896.
^ Dwight, H. B. (1924). "A new formula for use in calculating repulsion of coaxial coils" (PDF). Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Toronto, August 11–16, 1924. Vol. 2. pp. 461–464.