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ON October 25, Cornell University will celebrate the centenary of the birth of Robert Henry Thurston, the distinguished American professor of engineering, who by his work at the Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, and the Sibley College of Engineering, Cornell University, contributed more than any other man of his time to the advancement of engineering education in the United States. Thurston was a man of great force of character, but sympathetic, the friend of all his students, and he was possessed of a wide and generous outlook. With a remarkable memory, great powers of concentration and unceasing industry, he was not only a teacher and engineer, but also an original investigator, an expert, and a public servant. He published some 300 scientific and technical papers and twenty separate works. When engineering education was in its infancy he founded the first engineering laboratory in the United States, and he was the first to serve as president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
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Robert Henry Thurston (1839–1903). Nature 144, 701–702 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144701c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/144701c0