Stanley Pickett Rockwell
| Stanley Pickett Rockwell | |
|---|---|
| Born | May 3 1886 |
| August 1940August 1940 | |
| 🏳️ Nationality | American |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Yale University |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Known for | Metallurgy and inventor |
| 🏅 Awards | Albert Sauveur Achievement Award[1] |
Stanley Pickett Rockwell (May 3, 1886 to August 1940) was, alongside Hugh Rockwell (no relation), the inventor of the Rockwell scale, a way to measure the hardness of materials. Rockwell was also the founder of the Stanley P Rockwell Company.
Life and Career[edit]
Rockwell was born May 3, 1886 to Samuel Willis Rockwell(1860-1917) and Anna Marie Pickett(1861-1902),[2] in Thompsonville, Connecticut. In 1900 he moved to Hartford, Connecticut,[3] and in 1907, he graduated from Yale University from the Sheffield Scientific School,[4] specializing in science and engineering.[5][6] After he graduated, he became a metalurgist at the New Departure Bell Company in Bristol, Connecticut, where he worked with Hugh Rockwell, the son of the president of the company. In 1913, Stanley Pickett Rockwell and Ruth Gowdy Rockwell gave birth to Dudley Willis Rockwell. Stanley and Hugh developed the Rockwell Hardness Tester and submitted a patent on July 15, 1914 which was then published on February 11, 1919.[4] In may of 1921, Stanley added a dashpot to his hardness tester and submitted for a third patent[4] and partnered with Charles H. Wilson to mass-produce it. In 1923,[7][5] Stanley established the New England Heat-Treating Service Company which was later to renamed to the Stanley P Rockwell Company two years later.[4] The company remained as a heat-treatment company until 2010.[7] The Stanley P Rockwell Company lost sales rights for the Rockwell Scale in 1928. The same year, rockwell invented a type of dilatometer, holding US Patent 1,716,796.[6] By 1929, success in sales allowed the Rockwell Company to have a building built for it in East Hartford.[5]
Stanley Rockwell received the Albert Sauveur Achievement Award from the American Society for Medals in September of 1939.[4]
He died in the August of 1940 in the Connecticut River from a yacht explosion.[1]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Hardness, Bearings, and the Rockwells". ASMInternational.com. Retrieved 15 March 2022. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Family tree of Stanley Pickett Rockwell". Geneanet. Retrieved 4 October 2021.
- ↑ "FamilySearch.org". ancestors.familysearch.org. Retrieved 4 October 2021.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Chinn, Richard E.- (2009-10-01). "Hardness, Bearings, and the Rockwells". ADVANCED MATERIALS & PROCESSES. 167 (10).
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "Microsoft Word - Rockwell_SR.doc" (PDF). Hartford Preservation.org. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Chinn, Richard E.- (2009-10-01). "Hardness, Bearings, and the Rockwells". ADVANCED MATERIALS & PROCESSES. 167 (10).
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Stanley P. Rockwell Co. | Making Places". connecticutmills.org. Retrieved 2022-03-15.
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