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May 7, 2012 · According to an article in IBM’s employee publication, “Think,” Hollerith said he spent that time “fully occupied with boats, bulls, and butter.”. Four years later, the name of the company was changed to International Business Machines (IBM). Hollerith died of a heart attack in 1929. Nancy Giges is an independent writer.
Mar 28, 2012 · George Herman Babcock. Engineer and inventor George Herman Babcock was a leading 19th century innovator in safe steam boiler technology. Through his patents of pumps, steam engines, and novel boiler designs with collaborator Stephen Wilcox – and through his efforts as ASME's sixth president – Babcock raised the standard for safe boiler ...
Bridging the gap between pioneering spirit and modernity. The GT Neuchâtel is a tribute to the pioneering spirit of the past century. As the world‘s first commercially used industrial gas turbine plant, it was built by BBC in 1938 and stayed in operation for 63 years. On August 18, 2002 it was finally shut-down due to a damaged generator.
OF THE GENERAL ELECTRIC BELLE ISLE GAS TURBINEThe 3,500 kilowatt (kW) gas turbine that General Electric (GE) delivered to the Belle Isle Station of the Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company in Oklahoma City in July 1949 was the first gas turbi. e in the U.S. used to generate electric power. With an efficient power design created by GE’s engineers ...
In his twenty-fifth year at Thermo King Corporation, Herman H. Viegas, P. E. , is a section engineering manager. He has been a member of ASIME for 27 years, and currently serves as chairman of the History and Heritage Committee for Region VIL The Model C International Landmark designation and this brochure are largely the results of his efforts.
The discovery and the excavation. In the spring of 1900, two sponge fishing boats from the Greek island of Symi came to the east coast of Antikythera Island, where diver Ilias Stadiatis discovered the wreck at depths between 40 and 50 m. In November of 1900, sponge boat captain Dimitrios Kontos alerted the authorities in Athens to the discovery ...
Great Northern 2313, later Montana Western 31, is the oldest surviving Electro-Motive Co. (EMC) gas-electric rail motorcar, which reduced operating costs by 50 percent over the steam-locomotive trains it replaced. This 32-ton car features a Winton gasoline engine and General Electric generator and traction motors.
Sperry1981. U0!JOU0dSUOU uO 6upuonpo .10} ' -V. Elmer Ambrose Sperry 1860-1930 Founding of rhe Award The Elmer A. Sperry Award commemorates the life and achievements Of Dr. Elmer A. Sperrv.11860-19301 by seeking to encourage progress in the engineering of transportation. Much Of the great scope of the inventiveness Of Dr, Spcr:y Contributed ...
Designation Date. July 31, 2018. ventorErnest J. Moench, of Nashville, TN, invented the apparatus while Orrin Henry Ingram, his employer, claimed own. e1900Catherine Evans Whitener makes handmade chenille bedspreads using thick cotton yarns and manual cl. pping. This prompted the emergence of several small, family-operated busines.
140 Years and Counting. ASME was originally founded in 1880, as a way for engineers to discuss concerns brought by the rise of industrialization and mechanization. A need to ensure the safety of equipment used in manufacturing and construction, particularly boilers and pressure vessels, redefined the organization’s purpose and set the tone ...
