| Alexander Lyman Holley Born: 20-Jul-1832
Birthplace: Lakeville, CT
Died: 29-Jan-1882
Location of death: Brooklyn, NY
Cause of death: Cancer - unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Engineer, Inventor Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Designed steel foundries Father: Alexander Hamilton Holley (former governor of Connecticut)
Mother: Jane M. Lyman
Wife: Mary Slade (m. 1855)
Daughter: Gertrude
University: BA Philosophy, Brown University (1853)
Administrator: Trustee, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
The New York Times foreign technical correspondent (1858-75)
American Society of Civil Engineers
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers
Institution of Civil Engineers
Iron and Steel Institute of Great Britain
Theta Delta Chi Fraternity
National Inventors Hall of Fame (2006)
Risk Factors: Peritonitis
Author of books:
A Treatise on Ordnance and Armor: Embracing Descriptions, Discussions, and General Opinions Concerning the Material, Fabrication, Requirements, Capabilities, and Endurance of European and American Guns for Naval, Sea-Coast, and Iron-Clad Warfare, and their Rifling, Projectiles, and Breech-Loading (1865, nonfiction)
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