Frederick Steele Blackall Jr.

Frederick Steele Blackall Jr. (November 26, 1896 – July 6, 1963) was an American engineer, and president and chairman of board Taft-Peirce Manufacturing Company, known as 72nd President of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1953–54.

Biography Family and education Blackall was born in 1896 in Roselle, New Jersey, to Frederick Steele Blackall and Bertha Gates (Brown) Blackall. His father was an engineer and inventor, who obtained some patents in the early 20th century. After attending the Abbott School in Farmington, Maine and the Phillips Academy, he obtained his obtained his BA in English from Yale University in 1918.

In World War I Blackall enlisted in the United States Navy, where he graduated from Third Reserve Officers' School at the United States Naval Academy in 1918. After the War he returned to college to study engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he obtained his BSc in 1922. and by 1964 he was chairman of the board.

Selected publications Blackall, Frederick Steele. Invention and Industry-Cradled in New England!. No. 160. Newcomen Society, American Branch, 1946. Blackall, Frederick Steele. Price Control in the Machine Tool Industry: With a Foreword by Henry Hazlitt. No. 447. American Enterprise Association, 1953.

Articles, a selection Blackall Jr, F. S. "The obligation of management to provide leadership." Mechanical Engineering 72.3 (1950): 229–231. Blackall Jr, F. S. "ASME Standards Save Lives and Dollars." Mechanical Engineering 75 (1953): 979–981.