THE following is a sketch of the career of the Hon. Sir Charles A. Parsons, K.C.B.,F.R.S., D.Sc., etc., the brilliant inventor and engineer, and chairman of the ...

IN this volume there is contained an authentic record of steps taken in the development of a great invention. Lord Kelvin once described the work done by the Hon. Sir Charles Parsons in connection ...

THE presentation of the Kelvin Medal to Sir Charles Parsons, and the delivery of the James Forrest Lecture on “Radio Communications” by Senator Marconi, took place on October 26 at the Institution of ...

FOR 120 years it’s been the region’s powerhouse. Since Vixctorian days when it was home to the famous Parsons factory, the Siemens site on Shields Road, Heaton, Newcastle, has been at the forefront of ...

Taking a walk around the newly reopened Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, you might see one of Charles Parsons’ treasures. When he died, in 1905, The St. Louis Republic remembered Parsons as a ...