Horace See

Horace See (Philadelphia, July 16, 1835 - New York City, December 14, 1909) was an American mechanical engineer, marine engineer, naval architect, inventor, and superintendent. He is known as principal naval architect at the William Cramp & Sons shipyard in Philadelphia, and as president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in the year 1888-89.

See is also known for his contribution to "bringing triple and quadruple expansion engines to the United States and for making significant improvements in their operation."

See was born in Philadelphia in 1835, son of the well-known silk importer R. Calhoun See. He received classical and mathematical education at the Episcopal Academy and the private school of H. D. Gregory. He started his career as regular apprentice in the Port Richmond Iron Foundry, Machine and Steam Boiler Shop, I.P. Morris & Co. After the completion of his apprenticeship he became chief draughtsman, and later superintending engineer at Neafie & Levy, and next superintendent with the National Iron Armor and Shipbuilding Company.

In 1868 See joined George Snyder Machine Works in Philadelphia as engineer and assistant superintendent, he designed and constructed the machinery for the Lehigh and Susquehanna planes at Wilkesbarre, and the hoisting and pumping machinery for many of the prominent anthracite coal mines. After his service in the Civil War, 1m 1871 he started building iron vessels at William Cramp and Sons Ship and Engine Building Company in Philadelphia, first as designer and since 1879 as superintendent of engineering.

After Camp and Sons, in 1889, See moved to New York, where he worked as consulting engineer for the Newport News Steamship and Dry Dock Company. He was superintending engineer for the Southern Pacific Company, and the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, superintendent for the Cromwell Steam Ship Company. In his private practice as a marine engineer and naval architect he designed and prepared specifications for many yachts and commercial vessels.

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