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Carl Richard Soderberg
Carl Richard Soderberg
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First, at the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company he was instrumental in solving the problems of steam turbines as these progressed to ever larger sizes en c! higher operating pressures en c!
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Aged ten years, young Dick became the technical expert who kept running the single-cylincler, four-cycle motorboat engine "of fearfully inept design." In his more mature years he became intensely interested In his roots. A series of essays he wrote constitute an extensive unpublished autobiographical work, which he thought of as being aciciressec!
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In one of life's fateful turns, on a fellowship from the American Scandinavian Foundation, Soclerberg in the fall of that year came to MIT, where he registered as a special student in the Department of Naval Architecture.
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States, however, he never gave up close association with his homelancI, to which he returned frequently. In 1921 Dick Soderberg married Sigrid Kristina Lofstedt (Stina)
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The then major directions of clevelopment in power generation-much larger power output together with higher steam pressures en c! temperatures-macle clear that the talents necessary for cleveloping these new directions wouIc!
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Dick Soderberg, arriving in 1922, participated as both pupil and teacher in the startup of the design school. This was a perfect opportunity for his intellectual appetites, and his studies extended beyond topics in mechanical engineering to such areas as modern physics.
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in 1930 to Westinghouse, where he was assignee! to the Power Engineering Department in East Pittsburgh to work on large electric generators.
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During the war years he became graduate registration officer of the Mechanical Engineering Department. Graduate studies hac!
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in Washington as chairman of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the preclecessor of the National Aeronautics en c! Space Aciministration, Soclerberg for all practical purposes ran Mechanical Engineering.
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curricular hours will empathize with his wry observation of "grim competitive power play between the department heacis on one sicle en c! the top administration on the other." Both as heat!
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On the occasion of Soderberg~s eightieth birthday in 1975, MIT announced the establishment of the Car! Richard Soderberg professorship of power engineering, a career development chair for a round faculty member.
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on numerous government acivisory panels. He was a member of the Special Committee on Jet Propulsion ~ ~ 941-43)
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A member of many professional societies (American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Institute of Aeronautics en c! Astronautics, American Society of Engineering Education, American Society of Swedish Engineers, British Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Svenska Teknologforeningen)
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As a consultant for the Elliot Company, Soderberg's efforts were directed toward the development of a gas turbine for ship propulsion. This project produced the first marine gas turbine power plant in the Uniter!
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high fuel consumption, clue to the low pressure ratios employocI. Jet aircraft, it was then generally thought, wouIc!
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the Gustav Dalen Mecial of the Chalmers Institute of Technology (1970) , the De Laval Medal of the Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences (1968)
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The biographical memoir of Stephen P Timoshenko written by Soclerberg for the National Academy of Sciences is delightful in style and notable for its insight.
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was intense, as expressed in the following fragments of a poem appearing at the beginning of My Life by C Richard Soderberg: Still a child, I left that land Whose memories will never leave my soul But deep within me rested peacefully Angermanland, thy memory as a pearl .
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H Mannix; and a brief biographical tribute by the present author published by the National Academy of Engineering.
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APM -- 55-16. 1935 Recent developments in steam turbines.
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Mechanics of materials for gas turbine applications. In Design and Performance of Gas Turbine Power Plants, vol.
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402 BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS 1968 Forty years of turbine power developments. The de Laval memorial lecture presented to the Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden.
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