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7 de mai. de 2012 · Hollerith retired in 1921 to his farm in rural Maryland, where he spent the rest of his life raising Guernsey cattle. 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 ...
28 de mar. de 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 ...
1940. Earliest known refrigeration unit for trucks, having worldwide impact on food preservation. The refrigeration units placed on trucks in 1938 by Thermo King Corp. revolutionized the transportation of perishable foods. Today they are a common sight on streets everywhere. Consumer demand for meat, poultry, produce and dairy products ...
The Mechanism consisted of at least 30 gear wheels with teeth, dials, axles and pointer made of copper, thin and lead. Its small scale and use of pin-and-slot couplings revealed that Greek mechanicians of the second century B.C. were more proficient in the design of geared devices that previously suggested.
Melville Medal. The Melville Medal is the highest ASME honor for the best original paper (not published elsewhere) which has been published in the ASME Transactions during the two calendar years immediately preceding the year of the award. The paper may have more than one author, but one of the authors shall be an ASME corporate member (Fellow ...
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 ...
The nomination should focus on a single patent rather than the inventor'/s entire body of work. Submit Nomination Here. Nomination Instructions. Nomination Tip. Form of Award: $1000, plaque, certificate, and a $750 travel allowance. Limitation (s): The patent must have been registered in the U.S. Administrative Responsibility:
The History and Heritage Committee provides a public service by examining, noting, recording, and acknowledging mechanical engineering achieve-ments of particular significance. This Committee is part of ASME’s Council on Public Affairs and Board on Public Information. For further information, please contact Public Information at ASME ...
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.
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.
