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Thurston, Robert Henry
| (1839-1903), first president of ASME (1880-82), established the first mechanical laboratory in 1875, at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, where he was professor of mechanical engineering (having first established the curriculum there in 1871). In 1875, he developed the three-coordinate solid diagram for testing iron, steel, and other metals. He was widely published in the areas of materials, thermodynamics, steam engines and boilers, friction and energetics. In 1885 he became director of Sibley College at Cornell University and reorganized it as a college of mechanical engineering. He held two patents, one an autographic recording testing machine for material in torsion and the other a machine for testing lubricants. He was born Oct. 25, 1839, Providence, Rhode Island, and died Oct. 25, 1903, Ithaca, New York. |
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