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CENTENARY CELEBRATIONS THE celebration of the centenary of the birth of the distinguished American engineer, Robert H. Thurston, held at Cornell University on October 25, was the occasion for the delivery of several addresses in which tribute was paid to the great influence Thurston had on engineering education and progress, and also reference was made to the part tho engineer should take in the solving of social and economic problems. The addresses were given in the Bailey Hall before an audience of more than a thousand persons, which included many of Thurston's old students and delegates from no fewer than sixty universities and institutions in the United States, Great Britain, Canada, France and Germany.
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R. H. Thurston: Engineer. Nature 144, 1021–1022 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/1441021a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1441021a0