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Philip Sporn
Pages 279-284

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From page 279...
... He devoted his subsequent life to making things brighter, everywhere. He received his Electrical Engineering degree Tom Columbia University in 1917, worked briefly for Consumers Power Company in Michigan, and in 1920 joined American Electric Power (AEP)
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From page 280...
... He introduced the heat pump to AEP System office buildings in the 1930's. He was instrumental in the achievement of three industry milestones: · the founding of the Ohio Valley Electric Corporation to provide the then-record electric energy requirements of the massive uranium-diffusion operation of the U.S.
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From page 281...
... He subsequently won, among other honors, IEEE'S Edison Medal; the Columbia University Engineering Alumni Association's Egleston Medal; Columbia's Medal of Excellence; the ASME Medal; the Faraday Medal; and in 1955 the John Fritz Medal, the highest engineering honor in the country, presented jointly by the IEEE, ASCE, ASME, and the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers. He was also a Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor.
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From page 282...
... He didn't even slow down. Until his death he remained hard at work: as a consultant and advisor to utility and industrial clients and to the Government of Israel; as a lecturer, visiting professor, and advisory councilman at some of the nation's leading engineering universities; and as an author of books and articles for professional journals.
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