Author:Robert Henry Thurston

Robert Henry Thurston
(1839–1903)

First professor of mechanical engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology (in 1871). There he established Stevens’ mechanical engineering curriculum. Historians credit Thurston with establishing the first US mechanical engineering laboratory for conducting funded research at an academic institution for higher learning.

Robert Henry Thurston

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