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Leavitt, Erasmus D., Jr.
| (1836-1916), U.S. mechanical engineer and ASME's 2d president (1883-84) who, in the area of machinery design, was credited with establishing sound principles and propriety of design (ASME Transactions, 38: 1347-51, 1916). He designed a beam compound pumping engine in 1873 that "marked an era in the economy of pumping engines throughout the world." His Leavitt-Riedler pumping engine, installed in Boston's Chestnut Hill station in 1894, is an ASME historic mechanical engineering landmark. He was a founding member of ASME and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, and died in Cambridge, Massachusetts. See also ASME Transactions 39: 993-1,036, 1918. |
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