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Durand, William Frederick

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Durand, William Frederick (1859-1958)

US educator and marine and aeronautic engineer. An authority on the dynamics of propellers, he developed ways of minimizing loss of propulsive efficiency. He taught engineering at university level and was an advisor on the Boulder and Grand Coulee Dam projects.

He was born in Beacon Falls, Connecticut and he taught at Lafayette College, and Cornell and Stanford Universities, before retiring in 1924.



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