CHARLES G. CURTIS - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 03/05/1937 - HFSID 43599
Price: $220.00
CHARLES G. CURTIS
Brief letter on stationery of his International Curtis Marine Turbine
Company
Typed Letter signed: "Chas. G. Curtis", 1 page, 8x7½. New
York, N. Y., 1937 March 5. On letterhead of the International Curtis Marine
Turbine Company to Mr. Horace C. Tracy, Dayton, Ohio, in full: "In
response to your letter of March 3rd, I take pleasure in giving you my
autograph. Very truly yours". American engineer and inventor Charles
Gordon Curtis (1860-1953) invented the Curtis Steam Engine, suitable for
steamship propulsion, and sold the patent to General Electric in 1901.
(He preferred to leave marketing to others, so he could concentrate on design.)
This system proved valuable not just in transportation, but in steam-powered
electricity generating plants. Curtis developed the first functioning gas
turbine on the American continent (1914), winning the Holley Medal from the
American Society of Mechanical Engineers for this achievement. His International
Curtis Marine Turbine Company built turbine propulsion systems under contract
to the Royal Navy. He also made improvements to internal combustion
engine design, and a propulsion system for torpedoes. Multiple folds.
Creased and toned. Adhesive residue on verso with show through. Pencil note
(unknown hand) on verso. Otherwise, fine condition.
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