Boyden, Uriah Atherton
Published: August 28, 2006, 5:55 pm
Updated: August 28, 2006, 5:55 pm
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Uriah Atherton Boyden (1804 – 1879), an American mechanical engineer who designed a greatly improved water turbine (1844) that was widely used in early industrial factories. The Boyden turbine was the first to be manufactured in commercial quantity in the United States. Boyden greatly improved the performance of the Fourneyron turbine by providing a conical approach passage for incoming water. Two 800 horsepower Boyden turbines, at an old mill site in Cohoes, New York, were designated National Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmarks in 1975. These turbines were most likely the largest, and nearly the most powerful, water turbines ever built in the United States to supply direct mechanical power to a manufacturing plant. Boyden’s estate established Harvard’s Boyden Observatory.
Further Reading
Historical Significance of the 102-inch Boyden Hydraulic Turbines (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers)
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Cutler J. Cleveland (Lead Author);Tom Lawrence (Topic Editor) "Boyden, Uriah Atherton". In: Encyclopedia of Earth. Eds. Cutler J. Cleveland (Washington, D.C.: Environmental Information Coalition, National Council for Science and the Environment). [First published in the Encyclopedia of Earth August 28, 2006; Last revised Date August 28, 2006; Retrieved May 22, 2013 <http://www.eoearth.org/article/Boyden,_Uriah_Atherton>
The Author
Cutler J. Cleveland is Professor of Earth and Environment at Boston University, where he also is on the faculty of the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies. Professor Cleveland is Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Energy (Elsevier, 2004), winner of an American Library Association award, the Dictionary of Energy (Elsevier, 2005), Handbook of Energy (Elsevier, forthcoming), and is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Earth. He is the recipient of the Adelma ... (Full Bio)
Uriah Atherton Boyden (1804 – 1879), an American mechanical engineer who designed a greatly improved water turbine (1844) that was widely used in early industrial factories. The Boyden turbine was the first to be manufactured in commercial quantity in the United States. Boyden greatly improved the performance of the Fourneyron turbine by providing a conical approach passage for incoming water. Two 800 horsepower Boyden turbines, at an old mill site in Cohoes, New York, were designated National Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmarks in 1975. These turbines were most likely the largest, and nearly the most powerful, water turbines ever built in the United States to supply direct mechanical power to a manufacturing plant. Boyden’s estate established Harvard’s Boyden Observatory.
Further Reading
Historical Significance of the 102-inch Boyden Hydraulic Turbines (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers)
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