Charles Algernon Parsons
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 93 years ago |
Date of birth | June 13,1854 |
Zodiac sign | Gemini |
Born | London |
United Kingdom | |
Date of died | February 11,1931 |
Died | Kingston Harbour |
Jamaica | |
Children | Rachel Mary Parsons |
Algernon George Parsons | |
Job | Engineer |
Writer | |
Education | St John's College, Cambridge |
University of Cambridge | |
Trinity College Dublin | |
Books | Scientific Papers and Addresses of the Hon. Sir Charles A. Parsons: With a Memoir by Lord Rayleigh and Appendices |
Engine Tests and Boiler Efficiencies | |
First Parsons International Turbine Conference: Papers Presented at a Conference Jointly Sponsored by the University of Dublin ... [et Al.] and Held at the University of Dublin on 28/29 June 1984 | |
The Steam Turbine, the Rede Lecture 1911 | |
The Steam Turbine, the Rede Lecture 1911 - Scholar's Choice Edition | |
Awards | Copley Medal |
Rumford Medal | |
Franklin Medal | |
IET Faraday Medal | |
Albert Medal | |
Royal Society Bakerian Medal | |
Current partner | Katharine Parsons |
Parents | William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse |
Mary Rosse | |
Known for | Steam turbine |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 554665 |
Charles Algernon Parsons Life story
Sir Charles Algernon Parsons, OM, KCB, FRS was an Anglo-Irish engineer, best known for his invention of the compound steam turbine, and as the eponym of C. A. Parsons and Company.