Charles Felton Scott was an American electrical engineer and Yale University professor, born September 19, 1864 in Athens, Ohio and died December 17, 1944. After graduating from Ohio State University in 1885, he joined the engineering staff of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company in Pittsburgh in 1888, where he assisted Nikola Tesla's work on the alternating-current induction motor and, alongside engineer Ralph D. Mershon, ran experimental high-voltage transmission line tests at Telluride, Colorado that helped establish long-distance AC power transmission as practical. In the 1890s he invented the Scott-T transformer connection, a way of converting two-phase power to three-phase power and back so that systems built on either standard could interconnect. Scott served as president of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and received its Edison Medal in 1929 for his contributions to the field.
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