biography
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Curtis, Charles (Gordon)
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| (1860–1953)
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| biography:
| Inventor, born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He studied civil engineering at Columbia University, then law at the New York Law School. He is best known for his invention of the Curtis impulse steam turbine in 1896, 12 years after the reaction turbine had been patented by Sir Charles Parsons. |
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