biography
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Parsons, Sir Charles (Algernon)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1854–1931)
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| biography:
| Engineer, born in London, UK. He studied at Dublin and Cambridge, became an engineering apprentice, and in 1884 developed the high-speed steam turbine. He also built the first turbine-driven steamship, the Turbinia, in 1897. |
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