Charles Talbot Porter

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Charles Talbot Porter (born January 18, 1826 in Auburn , New York , † August 28, 1910 in Montclair , New Jersey ) was an American mechanical engineer, machine manufacturer and father of the high-speed steam engine .

Life

His father was the lawyer John Porter.

Porter was the first to recognize the advantages of fast rotating machines and to analyze the internal forces in machines. In 1858 he invented the loaded regulator and in 1861 he patented his isochronous centrifugal regulator . In 1862 he and John F. Allen (1829–1900) presented the Porter-Allen high-speed engine at the London exhibition . At the world exhibition in Paris in 1867 , he presented the only high-speed steam engine. In 1880 he set up a steam engine at Thomas Alva Edison's in Menlo Park. Soon afterwards he received the order to build the first series of so-called " steam dynamos " for Pearl Street Station .

In 1890 he retired for health reasons. He last lived with his son John Porter in Montclair.

Award

  • 1909: John Fritz Medal

Publications

  • Engineering reminiscences ; New York et al. London, 1908; Reprint: Lindsay Pubns, 1985, ISBN 091791435X
  • Autobiography: Memoirs of an Engineer ; Berlin, Springer, 1912; Reprint: Düsseldorf, VDI-Verlag, 1985
  • Mechanics and Faith: A Study of Spiritual Truth in Nature ; New York, GP Putnam's Sons ( Online )
  • A Treatise on the Richards Steam Engine Indicator, with Directions for Its Use ; 2006, ISBN 9781425513788

literature

  • Walter E. Gross: The case of Charles Tablot Porter and his steam engine governor ; In: Annals of Science , Vol. 29, October 3, 1972, pp. 257-269
  • Otto Mayr: Yankee Practice and Engineering Theory: Charles T. Porter and the Dynamics of the High-Speed ​​Steam Engine ; 1985
  • Richard Leslie Hills: Power from Steam ; P. 193 ff ( online )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Webster's Biographical Dictionary
  2. ^ NY Times, April 14, 1909

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Porter, Charles Talbot
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American machine builder
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH Auburn , New York
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1910
Place of death Montclair , New Jersey