Fire Detection and Alarm 3
Fire Detection and Alarm 3 : Benjamin Electric Manufacturing Company: Citation and summarization from: (a) The Electrical World, June 2, 1923; (b) Article from The Alumnus of Iowa State, by Arch. R. Crawford, 1931; (c) In Memoriam of R. B. Benjamin, '92; article from Vol. XXIX, January 1934; (d) Obituary - Reuben B. Benjamin: In Memoriam, January 1934; (e) Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, "EIIR The Coronation Booklet" - published by Holophane Ltd. November 9, 1953. Reuben Berkley Benjamin, born May 20, 1869, in Fulton, New York, to Timothy R. and Harriet E. Benjamin, and died December 26, 1933. He graduated with a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering, class of 1892, and was one of the three men to whom Iowa State College first granted a degree in Electrical Engineering, at Ames, Iowa, in 1892. After graduation, Mr. Benjamin entered the chosen field of his profession, as employed by the Commonwealth Edison Company in Chicago. He invented the wireless cluster, a device which perfected and revolutionized the lighting fixture. In 1901, with his patents, Benjamin partnered with three Ames men (from Iowa State College): W. Clyde Jones, Walter D. Steele, and Keene H. Addington, law partner of Mr. Jones. He launched a business from his Chicago home's basement with his wife, Annie Knott Benjamin as his bookkeeper. He continued to engage in the invention and manufacture of electrical appliances. Reuben was the head of the Benjamin Electric Manufacturing Company, which expanded from Chicago to New York, San Francisco, Toronto, Canada and London, England. He patented more than 350 devices, mostly in the field of electric lighting, with more patents pending at the time of his death. He was fourth among inventors in the United States for the number of patents received with Edison as the number one. He was a proficient mathematician, skilled engineer, and a competent executive; as well as a member of the American Association of Electrical Engineers
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