Charles Frederick Burgess (January 5, 1873 – February 13, 1945) was an American chemist and engineer.
[2][3] He attended local schools in Oshkosh and received a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin in 1895.
[2] Of an inventive turn of mind, he developed several new processes in electrolysis, and in 1904 was made investigator of electrolytic iron alloys for the Carnegie Institute.
In 1910, he wrote “The Strength of the Alloys of Nickel and Copper with Electrolytic Iron.”[citation needed] In World War I, Burgess was a district draft board member for southern Wisconsin.
[3] He became an engineering consultant and later a board member of the French Battery Company in Madison, Wisconsin, which produced dry cells to his design used by the US Army in World War I.