The basics
Quick facts
Intro
Editor
Gender:
Male
Is:
Work field:
Birth:
27 March 1848(New York City)
Death:
18 June 1918
Family:
Father:
Alfred Ely Beach
The details
Biography
Introduction
Frederick Converse Beach (March 27, 1848 – June 18, 1918), son of Alfred Ely Beach, was editor of the magazine Scientific American and of the new Encyclopedia Americana in the early 1900s, and an inventor of a photolithographic process.
Biography
He was born on March 27, 1848, in Brooklyn, New York to Alfred Ely Beach. He graduated from Yale's Sheffield Scientific School in 1868.
In 1896 he became a director of the Scientific American. In 1889 he was the editor of American Photography. From 1902 he was editor in chief of the Encyclopedia Americana.
He died on June 18, 1918, in Stamford, Connecticut.