Edwin Salisbury Carman (January 31, 1878 - March 20, 1951) was an American mechanical engineer, founder and head of Edwin S. Carman, Inc., engineers and foundry consultants, and inventor. He is known as president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in the year 1921-22.
Salisbury was born at Prairie Depot in Wood County, Ohio as son of Howard Carmen and Minerva Adeline (Bixler) Carman. His grandfather, Thomas S. Carman (1808-1903), had been physician of Ohio and a pioneer in the early days of the state.
After the regular public school education, he took a commercial course and attended evening classes in engineering at the Cleveland Manual Training School.
In 1899 Carman started his career in industry at the Sun Oil Company, of Toledo, later Sunoco. In 1903 he joined the American Machine and Manufacturing Co., where he assisted in designing electric cranes, rolling mill equipment and special machinery at the engineering department. In 1905 he was promoted chief engineer in charge of the designing, drafting and estimating departments.
Carmen later founded his own construction and consultancy firm, Edwin S. Carman, Inc., engineers and foundry consultants. He was elected president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers for the year 1921-22.
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