Sanford Alexander Moss
| Sanford Alexander Moss | |
|---|---|
| Born |
August 23, 1872 San Francisco, California |
| Died | November 10, 1946 (aged 74) Lynn, Massachusetts |
| Residence | United States |
| Citizenship | American |
| Fields | Engineering |
| Institutions | |
| Alma mater | |
| Thesis | The gas turbine an "internal combustion" prime-mover. (1903) |
| Known for | turbocharger |
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University of California, San Francisco
Sanford Alexander Moss (August 23, 1872 – November 10, 1946) was an American aviation engineer, who was the first to use a turbocharger on an aircraft engine.
Sanford Moss was born 1872 in San Francisco, California to Ernest Goodman Moss and Josephine Sanford. He received his B.S. and M.S. in engineering from the University of California, San Francisco.
On August 23, 1899 he married Jennie Edith Somerville Donnely in Chicago, Illinois.
Moss received his Ph.D. from Cornell University where he built his first gas turbine engine. In 1903 after graduation, Moss became an engineer for General Electric's Steam Turbine Department in Lynn, Massachusetts. At GE he worked with Elihu Thomson, Edwin W. Rice, and Charles Steinmetz. While there, he applied some of his concepts in the development of the turbosupercharger. His design used a small turbine wheel, driven by exhaust gases, to turn a supercharger.
In autumn of 1917 William F. Durand, Director of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, received incomplete reports that a French engineer named Auguste Rateau was attempting to develop engines for high altitudes using a turbo-driven air compressor. Durand remembered Moss as a graduate student who worked on gas driven turbo engines twenty years earlier at Cornell before starting a career at the gas turbine division of General Electric. Durand wrote to the president of GE, Edwin W. Rice, requesting Moss' services:
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