Edson Fessenden Gallaudet (S&B 1893)
Aircraft Pioneer. Yale University. Skull and Bones. Psi Upsilon. Johns Hopkins University
President of Gallaudet Engineering Company (later Gallaudet Aircraft Corporation)[3]
Member American Society of Aeronautic Engineers, Federation Aeronautique Internationale, Aero Club of America, SigmaXi, Engineers’ Club (New York), and Central Congregational Church, Providence, RI.[4]
Associate fellow Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences, Inc.[4]
1924 - Gallaudet retired from the company he had founded. The assets were acquried by Major Reuben Fleet, who used them as the core around which he founded Consolidated Aircraft Corporation.
1923 - Built an all-metal aircraft which flew on the 20 Jun 1923 at Wilbur Flight Field, Ohio.
WW1 - 19 Jul 1918 - Gallaudet Aircraft Company D-4 (Left picture), first flight, crashed due to faulty elevator killing the pilot, Lt. Arthur Souther. The second D4, flew on Oct 1918 and was accepted by the U.S. Navy in April 1919. No more built. Gallaudet turned their attention to the Curtiss HS-2L flying boat (Right picture).[6][8]
WW1 - 17 Jul 1916 - Gallaudet Aircraft Company D-1, first flight and despite numerous mechanical difficulties the Army bough four of the improved D-2 versions.[6]
From 1910 was actively interested in development of aeronautical engineering, secured aviator’s license Aero Club of America with Wright biplane at Garden City, N.Y, and pilot’s brevet Aero Club of France with Nieuport monoplane in 1911, author Relations between Length, Elasticity, and Magnetization of Iron and Nickel Wire (1896).
1908 - Organizer and president Gallaudet Engineering Company, mechanical and consulting engineers,Norwich. (became Gallaudet Aircraft Corporation, Norwich and East Greenwich,R1, 1917);
1908 - with New England Refrigerator Company, Norwich, Conn.[4]
1903 to 1908 - Assistant to the President and General Superintendent Stillwell-Bierce & Smith Vaile Company (later Platt Iron Works Company), Dayton.[4]
1903 - National Cash Register Company, Dayton, Ohio.[4]
1900 to 1903 - With William Cramp & Sons’ Ship and Engine Building Company, Philadelphia.[4]
1899 - Head Crew Coach at Yale University.[4]
1897 to 1900 - Instructor in physics Yale University.[4]
1896 to 1897 - with Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company, Pittsburgh.[4]
1893 to 1896 - Studied electrical engineering Johns Hopkins University (PhD 1896).[4]
1893 - Graduated Yale, Skull and Bones Patriarch.[1]
Died 1 Jul 1945, from subdural hemorrhage. Age 74.
Brother … Herbert D Gallaudet (S&B 1898)
Father, Edward Miner Gallaudet (BA Trinity [Conn] 1856, MA 1859, PhD George Washington 1869, LLD Yale1895), founder and president Gallaudet College for the Deaf, Washington, son of Rev Thomas H Gallaudet, LLD (BA 1805), and Sophia (Fowler) Gallaudet Mother, Susan (Denison) Gallaudet, daughter of Dr Joseph Adam Denison,Jr, and Ehza (Skinner) Denison of Royalton, Vt Yale relatives include William E Gallaudet (BA 1815) (great-uncle),Henry C Trumbull (MA Hon 1866)(uncle) , Charles G Trumbull, ‘93, Lindsay Denison (S&B 1895), and Samuel Field, Jr, ‘06 (cousins), John W Edgerton (MA 1896)(brother-m-law), Edward D Gallaudet,‘24, and Cruger G Edgerton, ‘41(nephews), Amelie F Edgerton Marshall,‘37 L (niece)
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