Alfred Makower

Alfred Jacques Makower (9 May 1876 in London – 1 February 1941) was electrical engineer and community activist.

[2] Then in 1900 he was given a job by Union-Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft (UEG), a subsidiary of the Thomson-Houston Electric Company.

In 1904 he was appointed head of the Electrical Engineering Department of South-Western Polytechnic.

[3] Alfred was chair of the Professional Committee of the German Jewish Aid Committee, in which capacity he helped several German engineer refugees with financial support and help in finding employment amongst his contacts in the engineering sector.

He was vice-president of the Jewish Board of Guardians whose General Relief Committee he also chaired.

Turbine Hall at UEG, in 1900 when Makower went to work for them