Albert C. Ludlum died in New York on February 15th, 1928, at the age of 60.
Having graduated from the public school at Brooklyn in 1883, he was for about six years employed in a bank, but in 1889 he became salesmen and afterwards general manager of the Kennedy & Pierce Machinery Co., of Denver, Colo.
In 1898 he was employed by James Beggs & Co., in charge of their mining machinery department, and while there organized a department for the building of gold dredges. In 1906, he found his great opportunity in the organizing of the New York Engineering Co., which was his property and of which he was president until his death. He also organized several large dredging companies in the United States and elsewhere.
As an inventor he was responsible for the Ludlum water-tube boiler and numerous devices employed in gold dredging machinery, placer prospecting machines and other lines.
Mr. Ludlum was elected a Member of the Institution in 1927.
Vol. 39, Trans IMM 1929-30, p.697
