Walker Lee Cisler
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Walker Lee Cisler (Marietta, Ohio, October 8, 1897 - October 18, 1994) was a noted American engineer, business executive, and a founding member of the National Academy of Engineering.Cisler received a degree in mechanical engineering from Cornell University in 1922. He was elected to the Sphinx Head Society during his senior year. He held a variety of positions at the Public Service Electric and Gas Company in New Jersey, before being named in 1941 as chief of the Equipment Production Branch at the U.S. War Production Board. In mid-1943 he became…mehr

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Walker Lee Cisler (Marietta, Ohio, October 8, 1897 - October 18, 1994) was a noted American engineer, business executive, and a founding member of the National Academy of Engineering.Cisler received a degree in mechanical engineering from Cornell University in 1922. He was elected to the Sphinx Head Society during his senior year. He held a variety of positions at the Public Service Electric and Gas Company in New Jersey, before being named in 1941 as chief of the Equipment Production Branch at the U.S. War Production Board. In mid-1943 he became chief engineer of power plants for Detroit Edison, but was granted leave of absence to become chief of public utilities for Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force with responsibility for rebuilding electrical power plants in Europe. In this role, he served in Sicily, visited Russia, and in August 1944 entered Paris with General Charles de Gaulle. By 1945 the French electric system was generating more power than it had before the war.