professor, mechanical engineer, b. Werpinge, Lund, Sweden. He came with his parents to Idaho. After obtaining his B.S. degree at the Univ. of Idaho (1907), he was test engineer for the General Electric Company for two years. He served the Univ. of Idaho as associate professor of mechanical engineering and as graduate manager of athletics (1909-1914). He came to the Univ. of Wisconsin in 1914 as assistant professor of mechanical engineering, rose to the rank of professor, and served until his retirement in 1951. Larson was chairman of the mechanical engineering department from 1920 to 1947. Prominent in the American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers, he was a member of its council, chairman of its committee on research, president (1936), and chairman of its executive committee (1937). He was consulting engineer for the physical plant at the Univ. of Wisconsin and for the Ordnance Division of the War Department (1917-1918). He helped draft the Wisconsin heating and ventilating code. Who's Who in Amer., 21 (1940); Univ. of Wis. Faculty Memorial, Document 1097, Oct. 5, 1953, on file in office of secretary of the faculty.Learn More
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