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THE presentation of the Kelvin Medal to Sir Charles Parsons, and the delivery of the James Forrest Lecture on “Radio Communications” by Senator Marconi, took place on October 26 at the Institution of Civil Engineers. The assembly was the largest ever seen at the Institution; and among those present was the Italian Ambassador. In presenting the medal on behalf of the Kelvin Medal Award Committee, Sir William Ellis, the president of the Institution, referred to the work of Sir Charles Parsons in the fields of scientific inquiry and the applications of thermodynamics, remarking that the medal commemorated the achievements of Lord Kelvin in those branches of science which are especially applicable to engineering. Reference was made to the scientific environment in which Sir Charles Parsons was brought up and to the work of his father, the Earl of Rosse, who in 1845 completed the famous reflecting telescope at Birr Castle, and later Sir William Ellis sketched the progress of the steam turbine with which the name of Sir Charles Parsons is so closely associated.
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Sir Charles Parsons and the Steam Turbine. Nature 118, 678–679 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118678a0
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