Show Noted Engineer Dies Dees From Heart Ailment v x g- g Y 1 K r. r r R f r i r. r S 1 Bachman Widely Videly known electrical engineer dies Elwood Bachman 57 i. i known throughout the United States and Canada for his long career in electrical electrical elec elec- trial engineering died at alWs his residence residence residence resi resi- dence 1391 Gilmer dr Tuesday at 2 45 pm p.m. of a heart ailment Since 1920 Mr Bachman was electrical consultant and specialist for General Electric Co in Salt Lake City and had worked as an electrical supervisor on many large larg-e projects Instrumental In electrification of the Copper Corp plant at Bingham he also helped with the design and installation it of oC the recent Utah Copper power plant During construction of the Hoover dam and Geneva a Steel plant he was engineer in charge of all General Electric Mr 1 Bachman was born Aug 5 1891 in Provo a son of Benjamin BenjaminJr Jr and Belle Milner Bachman and attended Brigham Young academy and later was graduated from the University of Utah in 1916 After serving for some time at Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Pitts Pitts- burgh Pa as a Westinghouse Co testing engineer he joined the engineering engineering engineering en en- staff of General Elec Elec- Co helping with electrification tion of the Chicago Milwaukee and St. St Paul railroad He later was assigned to G G. G E. E Es E.'s s 's works at Pittsfield Pittsfield Pitts Pitts- field Mass During World War Var I he was an instructor In the U. U S S. S army signal corps at Yale university in charge charSe of field and laboratory operations After the war he went to San Francisco with the G G. E. E company coming to Salt Lake City in 1920 He spent 25 years as consulting consulting- engineer for the Hudson Bay Mining Mining Mining Min Min- ing and Smelting Co In Canada and also was In charge of construction construction construction con con- of the hydroelectric plant on the Churchill river there During World War Var II n he designed designed de dc- de- de signed aircraft equipment supplied by the G. G E. E Co and supervised army and navy electrical installations installations installations at bases in the intermountain tain thin area The well known electrical adviser adviser ad ad- Iser organized the Theta Tau engineering engineering engineering en en- fraternity at the University University Uni Uni- of oC Utah He was local I chairman of the American Institute Institute I tute of Mining and Metallurgical I Engineers and a member of other electrical groups Survivors Include his widow Margaret Margarct or M Marshall a r rs s h a II 11 Bachman whom he married in 1921 a son and daughter Elwood Marshall and Margaret JoAnne Bachman his mother all of Salt Lake City two sisters Mrs Melba Andrews Arcadia Cal and Mrs 1 Ireta Winn Vinn Salt Lake City |