Frederic P. Hartwell is nationally known for his expertise on National Electrical Code topics. He has vast experience as an NEC and state electrical code panel member and trainer in NEC theory and applications, and brings years of experience and practical hints gained as a licensed master electrician, electrical inspector, and former head electrician at a Massachusetts college. He has been responsible for over one thousand successful proposals and public comments regarding changes in the Code beginning with the 1987 edition. He continues as a principal member of the NEC Committee, serving on Code Making Panel 9 as its senior member, and is secretary of the Massachusetts Electrical Code Advisory Committee. Hartwell has been the author of Practical Electrical Wiring starting with the 18th edition (2001) and Wiring Simplified , starting with the 40th edition (2002). He is the new author of McGraw-Hill's American Electricians' Handbook , beginning with its 15th edition (2008). He also co-wrote the 26th edition of the McGraw-Hill National Electrical Code Handbook on the 2008 NEC and will be the author of a new McGraw-Hill Code Guidebook on the 2011 and subsequent NEC editions.
He has contributed numerous articles to the IAEI (International Association of Electrical Inspectors) News and for nearly ten years was the senior editor and NEC expert with Electrical Construction and Maintenance Magazine. He wrote numerous books on Code topics published by EC&M. Herbert Richter P wrote the first edition of Wiring Simplified in 1932. It was one of the first how-to books on wiring for general readers. It was followed by Practical Electrical Wiring in 1939. With the publication of each succeeding edition of these books, the author came to be regarded as more and more widely as both the do-it-yourselfer's electrician and the electrician's electrician. He had the rare ability to write for both the amateur and the professional, and his books continue today in updated versions. W Schwan Creighton is a registered professional engineer and electrical consultant and was a recognized authority on wiring standards and practices.
He was the coauthor of Wiring Simplified and Practical Electrical Wiring for several editions and regularly contributed a column, "Code Comments," to the magazine Electrical Contractor . His background included positions supervising electrical inspectors in Alameda County, California, and acting as electrical safety engineer for the California Division of Industrial Safety and senior field engineer for nine western stated for the National Electrical Manufacturers Association. He held memberships in several professional organizations and had been an instructor at seminars on the National Electrical Code.