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Lamar L42 - 113May 7, 2012 · John Harrison. John Harrison (1693 – 1776), English inventor and horologist, or clockmaker, overcame one of the most challenging problems of the 18th century: how to determine the longitude of a ship at sea, saving many lives. In so doing, he had to defy the establishment, fight to collect a huge prize offered by Parliament, and wait for ...
Alexander Twining, whose first “elementary trials” were “made as far back as the year 1848,” and James Harrison, an Australian printer and newspaperman, who built a mechanical ice-making machine in 1851.10 The 1870s saw the beginnings of rapid commercialization of vapor compression refrigeration with a system developed by Carl Paul
The award, established in 1944 by Pi Tau Sigma in coordination with ASME, honors Charles Russ Richards, founder of Pi Tau Sigma at the University of Illinois, former head of mechanical engineering and dean of engineering at the University of Illinois and later president of Lehigh University. He was a member of ASME and served on its Board of ...
Apr 25, 2012 · John Ericsson’s Novelty. The following year he entered a wildly hyped contest for the best steam-powered locomotive, with a prize of $2,500. Ericsson, now 26, had never toyed with anything train-like, but in less than two months he had constructed his Novelty. At the Rainhill Trials, the Novelty crushed the competition—in terms of speed, at ...
Oct 24, 2011 · Virginia (nee, Merrimac) at Hampton Roads, Virginia, on March 9, 1862. Most of that interest is focused on the revolutionary Monitor and its iconoclastic designer, John Ericsson (whose bust sits in the lobby of the ASME's New York headquarters to this day). Both the ship and the man were totally unlike anything else the world had seen.
1945 William Henry Harrison "Who in times of peace has been devoted to his civic services and effective in his recognition of the essentials of human betterment, and who equally in time of war, inspired by the same ideals, has generously served his country, is awarded by his fellow engineers the Hoover Medal for 1945." 1946 Vannevar Bush
John has extensive practical experience with nondestructive examination and welding technology. Mr. Swezy has been a member of various ASME Codes & Standards Committees since 1996. He is a National Board Commissioned Boiler and Pressure Vessel Inspector and an American Welding Society Certified Welding Inspector (CWI).
Dec 28, 2010 · The Genesis of the Steamboat. A 1788 sketch by Rumsey shows his propulsion scheme: a Newcomen engine piston connects to the smaller piston of a water-jet pump. The person who gets the most credit for an invention is typically not the innovator, but the one who makes the idea pay. Take, for example, Robert Fulton, the “inventor” of the ...
Nov 11, 2011 · As the Tichy Boys, he and his 32-year-old guitar-whiz son, Graham, hit the college-town clubs of Troy, NY, as one of the region's go-to bands for rock-n-roll's raunchy, country-fried evil twin, rockabilly. As an engineer, Tichy's a heavy hitter. He's the former department chair at RPI, an ASME fellow, a former technical editor of the ASME ...
The machine was built to produce 1.5-inch rope for cable railways--80 tons could be loaded at a single spinning, which provided 30,000 feet of unspliced cable at a batch. The demand for ever longer cable car ropes led to its design. It was a vertical machine, standing 64 feet, requiring the machine and building to be built as a unit.
