Frederic Alfred Anderson
Frederic Alfred Anderson
1867 Born in Erith, son of William Anderson
1889 His father was undertaking a project to design machinery for the manufacture of the new explosive, Cordite. On his appointment as Director General of Ordnance Factories, the Cordite machinery project was passed to Frederick.
Career: chemist with firms engaged in water purification; later in charge of engineering laboratory, and subsequently in consulting engineering.
By 1939, Chief Engineer, Edward Barrs, Consulting Engineers, 10 Gray's Inn Place, Holborn, W.C.1.
Wrote a book on “Boiler Feed Water" in the "Electrician" series.
1941 Died in Ramsey, Isle of Man