HAROLD MANDEVILLE PULSIFER, Chicago, Ill.
Born: Auburn, N.Y., July, 1876.
Education: One year special course in mechanics with Sibley College graduate.
Apprentice: Buffalo Forge Company, Buffalo, N.Y., Testing block and erecting shop for high speed engines and blowers.
Drafting room: Buffalo Forge Co., Buffalo, N.Y. Working drawings for engines, blowers and heating apparatus and general drawings of their application. B.F. Sturtevant Co., Philadelphia, heating and ventilation applications, 1898-1899.
Shop experience: Buffalo Forge Co., 1896-1897.
Other engineering work: Since 1899, contracting engineer for heating and ventilating and power equipment, B.F. Sturtevant Co., designed and executed equipments for public buildings and large industrial plant, Charleston, Illinois State Normal School. Heating and ventilating equipment, shops of New York Shipbuilding Co., heating. Shops of Louisville & Nashville Railroad Co., South Louisville, Ky., heating. Two years in design development and installation of apparatus for burning pulverized bituminois coal in rotary Portland cement kilns and annealing furnaces about five hundred rotary kilns and twenty-five annealing furnaces were successfully equipped. Western Manager, B.F. Sturtevant Co.
Present position: President, Automatic Sprinkler Construction Co., actively interested in fire protection engineering.
References: R.C. Carpenter, L.P. Breckenridge, H.C. Meyer, Jr., W.B. Snow, W.L. Bronnaugh.