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DR. O. A. SAUNDERS, who has just been appointed to the University of London chair of mechanical engineering at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, is a greduate of London and Cambridge and was a senior scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge, during 1926-29. After leaving the University he was trained at the Fuel Research Station under DR. C. H. Lander and Eng.-Capt. J. Fraser Shaw, after which he specialized on the thermodynamical side of fuel and power appliances. His work on industrial heat transmission is well known, and in 1921 he published in collaboration with Dr. Fishenden a standard book on heat transmission. In 1932 he took up the post of lecturer in applied mathematical physics in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Imperial College, and in 1937 became the first Clothworkers' reader in applied thermodynamics. During the War his services were seconded to the Ministry of Aircraft Production for special investigations on internal combustion engines, and later he joined the Directorate of Turbine Engine Research, in which he was in charge of research on jet propulsion and gas turbines.
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Dr. O. A. Saunders. Nature 158, 191–192 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158191b0
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