Herbert Bristol Dwight Explained

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

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

Notes and References

1. Book: Dwight, Herbert Bristol. https://books.google.com/books?id=FUAmAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA394. Who's Who in Engineering: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries 1922–1923. 1922 . 1. 394 . Leonard . John William . Downs . Winfield Scott . Lewis . M. M. .
2. Dwight, Herbert B.. Skin effect in tubular and flat conductors. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. 37. 2. 1918. 1379–1403. 10.1109/T-AIEE.1918.4765575. 51636838 .
3. Dwight, H. B.. Some new formulas for reactance coils. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. 38. 2. 1919. 1675–1696. 10.1109/T-AIEE.1919.4765652. 51653896 .
4. Book: Dwight, H. B.. A new formula for use in calculating repulsion of coaxial coils. Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Toronto, August 11–16, 1924. 1924. 2. 461–464. http://www.mathunion.org/ICM/ICM1924.2/Main/icm1924.2.0461.0464.ocr.pdf. 2017-11-30. 2017-12-01. https://web.archive.org/web/20171201042016/http://www.mathunion.org/ICM/ICM1924.2/Main/icm1924.2.0461.0464.ocr.pdf. dead.