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LEE A. KILGORE
LEE A. KILGORE
Pages 208-215
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George went on to have a distinguished 1 This and other quotations are from an oral history conducted December 8, 1993, by William Aspray, IEEE History Center, Piscataway, NJ, http://ethw.org/Oral-History:Lee_Kilgore. The IEEE History Center has a collection of more than 800 oral histories in electrical and computer technology; they can be accessed via http://ethw.org/ Oral-History:List_of_all_Oral_Histories.
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This involved a lot of experimentation and, in his words, "we…nearly wrecked one of the machines." As a result, he learned something about bracing of armature windings and wrote a classic paper, "Calculation of Synchronous Machine Constants -- Reactance and Time Constants Affecting Transient Characteristics."2 Lee was engaged in the design of large generators and wrote a design manual for turbogenerators, based in part on the work of Benjamin G Lamme but with much original material as well.
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Smith, who had worked as an induction motor designer for 30 years before they had made him any kind of a supervisor." Kilgore said he "applied myself mostly to developing better methods of calculation." As manager of motor design, among other responsibilities, during and after the Second World War,4 he developed motor and drive systems for large wind tunnels at Wright Field (now Wright-Patterson Air Force Base) and Moffett Field (now NASA Ames)
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The system at Moffett Field was even bigger, involving six large motors, each driving a fan. To maintain uniform flow, all six motors had to be turning at the same speed, so a system of wound rotor motors with both primary and secondary circuits connected together was to be used.
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Lamme who had led development of rotating electric machinery at Westinghouse early in the 20th century but who had passed away shortly before Lee started working at the company. His Lamme Medal citation was "for meritorious achievements in the design of electrical machinery; more specifically, for analyses of synchronous machine reactances, for inventions of special armature windings, and for inventions and designs related to large adjustable-speed alternating-current motors." When he was a couple of years from retirement, the job he had held was eliminated in a reorganization, so he became a "consulting engineer." Beyond teaching about technical topics like engineering design, heat transfer, and field mapping, he also developed educational resources for his divisions.
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Lee Kilgore made important contributions to the design of electric power apparatus, including enhanced use of analytical techniques for design, and to the design of rotating machinery and switchgear, including field mapping techniques for understanding breakdown. He taught engineering analysis and design to numerous engineers at Westinghouse, where he also developed and taught about management of people.
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