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2 unusual facts about Robert Henry Thurston


Matthew Henry Phineas Riall Sankey

Just four years later in 1902 Robert Henry Thurston among others acknowledged, that the heat distribution of the then modern steam engine was best shown by the use of the so-called "Sankey Diagram".

Robert Henry Thurston

In 1873 he was appointed a member of the United States Scientific Commission to the Vienna Exhibition ; served upon the international jury, edited the Report of the Commissioners (in which he published his own report on machinery and manufactures), in five volumes, 1875-6.



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