Charles Wallace Hunt

Charles Wallace Hunt (October 13, 1841 – March 27, 1911) was an American mechanical engineer, inventor and business executive, known as president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in the year 1898–99.

Biography Hunt was born at Candor, New York, on October 13, 1841. He came into prominence as founder of the C. W. Hunt Company in West New Brighton in 1871, three years after he had settled in Staten Island and had started a retail coal business.

Hunt was elected president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers for the year 1898–99, and was elected an Associate of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers in 1902.

Selected publications Coal Handling Machinery: No. 9306, Published 1893 by C. W. Hunt Company Charles Wallace Hunt. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, President's Address 1898: The Engineer, His Work, His Ethics, His Pleasures. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1898 Charles Wallace Hunt. Manila Rope: Transmission and Hoisting, 1912. Charles Wallace Hunt. Heat Transmission in Poor Conductors, 1913.

Selected patents Patent US708713 - Hoisting apparatus, 1902 Patent US729868 - Hoisting apparatus, 1902 Patent US796074 - Coal-chute, 1905 Patent US1020607 - Motor-truck, 1910 Patent US1048834 - Conveyer, 1910