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Curtis, Charles Gordon
| (1860-1953), U.S. mechanical engineer and inventor, patented the first U.S. gas turbine (1899). Among his other achievements, the Curtis steam turbine (patented 1896, sold rights to GE in 1901) required one tenth the space and weighed one eighth as much as machines it replaced. In 1910 he was awarded the Rumford Premium by the American Academy for Arts & Sciences, for his improvement of the steam turbine. He received the first annual award from ASME?s Gas Turbine Power Division in 1948. In 1950 he received the Holley Medal from ASME, also for his gas turbine work. He was born April 20, 1860, Boston, Massachusetts, and died March 10, 1953, Central Islip, New York. |
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