Frederic Columbus Blake (born October 30, 1877 in Decatur, Illinois)BLAKE, Frederic Columbus, in Who's Who in America (1926 edition); p. 288 was an American engineer, social scientist, academic, futurist, writer, and visionary. He was adviser of numerous outstanding scientists in Ohio State University including William Littell Everitt. His PhD adviser was Ernest Fox Nichols, a President of Dartmouth College.

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