Charles Algernon Parsons

Compund Steam Turbine, circa 1887

Sir Charles Algernon Parsons, O.M. (June 13, 1854 – February 11, 1931) was a British engineer, best known for his invention of the steam turbine. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (774x1054, 332 KB) Charles Algernon Parsons (1854–1931), British engineer, inventor of the steam turbine. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (774x1054, 332 KB) Charles Algernon Parsons (1854–1931), British engineer, inventor of the steam turbine. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1600x657, 64 KB) Parsons Compound Steam Turbine - 1887 - Project Gutenberg eText 17167. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1600x657, 64 KB) Parsons Compound Steam Turbine - 1887 - Project Gutenberg eText 17167. ... June 13 is the 164th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (165th in leap years), with 201 days remaining. ... 1854 (MDCCCLIV) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... February 11 is the 42nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Year 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1931 calendar). ... Look up engineer in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A rotor of a modern steam turbine, used in a power plant A steam turbine is a mechanical device that extracts thermal energy from pressurized steam, and converts it into useful mechanical work. ...

Born at 13 Connaught Place, Hyde Park, London on June 13,1854, he was the youngest son of the famous astronomer Lord Rosse, and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and St. John's College, Cambridge. He worked as an engineer on dynamo and turbine design, and power generation, with great influence on the naval and electrical engineering fields. He also developed optical equipment, for searchlights and telescopes. Lord Rosse William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse (June 17, 1800 – October 31, 1867) was an Irish astronomer. ... Trinity College, Dublin, corporately designated as the Provost, Fellows and Scholars of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, was founded in 1592 by Queen Elizabeth I, and is the only constituent college of the University of Dublin, Irelands oldest university. ... Full name The College of Saint John the Evangelist of the University of Cambridge Motto - Named after The Hospital of Saint John the Evangelist, Cambridge, named after John the Evangelist Previous names - Established 1511 Sister College Balliol College Master Prof. ... Dynamo, or Dinamo, may refer to: Dynamo, an electrical generator Dynamo (sports society) of the Soviet Union Operation Dynamo, the 1940 mass evacuation at Dunkirk Dynamo, the rock band based in Belfast Dynamo theory, a theory relating to magnetic fields of celestial bodies Dynamo Open Air, annual heavy metal music... A Siemens steam turbine with the case opened. ... Itaipu Dam is a hydroelectric generating station Electricity generation is the first process in the delivery of electricity to consumers. ... Electrical Engineers design power systems… … and complex electronic circuits. ... Edisons classical searchlight cart. ... 50 cm refracting telescope at Nice Observatory. ...

He founded the Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company in Newcastle Upon Tyne and became famous when in June 1897 his turbine powered yacht, Turbinia, was sailed at speed through the Diamond Jubilee Royal Navy fleet review off Portsmouth, to demonstrate the great potential of the new technology. Today, Turbinia is housed in a purpose-built gallery at the Discovery Museum, Newcastle. Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company, often referred to simply as Parsons, was a British shipbuilding company based in Wallsend, North England, on the River Tyne. ... This article is about a city in the United Kingdom. ... A modern yacht A yacht (From Dutch Jacht meaning hunt) was originally defined as a light, fast sailing vessel used by the Dutch navy to pursue pirates and other transgressors around and into the shallow waters of the Low Countries. ... The Turbinia Turbinia was the first steam turbine powered steamship, built as an experimental vessel in 1894 and demonstrated dramatically at the Spithead Navy Review in 1897, setting the standard for the next generation of steamships. ... The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of the British armed services (and is therefore the Senior Service). ... Portsmouth is a city of about 189,000 people located in the county of Hampshire on the southern coast of England. ... Discovery Museum is situated in Blandford Square in Newcastle upon Tyne. ...

He was knighted in 1911, and made a member of the Order of Merit in 1927. A statue of an armoured knight of the Middle Ages For the chess piece, see knight (chess). ... 1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... For other Orders see Order of Merit (disambiguation). ...

He won the Rumford Medal in 1902. In 1796, Benjamin Thompson, known as Count Rumford, gave $5000 separately to the Royal Society of London and the other by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences to give awards every two years for outstanding scientific research on heat or light. ... 1902 (MCMII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...

His company survives in the Heaton area of Newcastle and is now part of Siemens, a German conglomerate. Sometimes referred to as Siemens Parsons, the company recently completed a major redevelopment programme, reducing the size of its site by around three quarters and installing the latest manufacturing technology. Heaton is a surname. ... Siemens has the following uses: Siemens is a German family name carried by generations of the telecommunications industrialists, including Werner von Siemens, Sir William Siemens, Wilhelm von Siemens and Peter von Siemens Siemens AG is a German electrical and telecommunications company, founded as a telegraph equipment manufacturer by Werner von... A conglomerate is a large company that consists of divisions of often seemingly unrelated businesses. ... Urban renewal (also called urban regeneration in British English) is a movement in urban planning that reached its peak in the United States from the late 1940s through the early 1970s. ... Manufacturing, a branch of industry which accounts for about one-quarter of the worlds economic activity, is the application of tools and a processing medium to the transformation of raw materials into finished goods for sale. ...

The Parsons Building in Trinity College, Dublin, which houses the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, is named in his honour.[1] On 28 September 2006, the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, Mr Noel Dempsey TD, announced the Charles Parsons Awards which provide funding for research groups engaged in energy research in Ireland.[2] The Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources is the senior minister at the Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources (An Roinn Cumarsáide, Mara agus Achmhainní Nádúrtha) in the Irish Government. ... Noel Dempsey (born January 1953), is a senior Irish Fianna Fáil politician. ... A Teachta Dála (Irish for Dáil Deputy, pronounced chock-ta dawla) is a member of Dáil Éireann, the lower chamber of the Irish Oireachtas or National Parliament. ...

See also

• Contemporaries of Parsons at St. John's College, Cambridge: Kikuchi Dairoku; Donald MacAlister
• List of people on stamps of Ireland

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External links

• E-book: "The Steam Turbine and Other Inventions of Sir Charles Parsons"
• Birr Castle, ancestral home
• Profile of Charles Parsons
• Profile at Cambridge University
• Parsons and Turbinia