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Charles Harold Berry (1889-1965) was the Gordon McKay Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Harvard University[1] from 1935-1955. His highly-cited research focused primarily on steam power and power generation, as well as fan design, ventilation, and associated thermodynamics. His 1954 book "Flow and Fan" remains a widely refereenced text for mechanical engineers working on ventilation problems.

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[edit] Biography

  • Born in 1889 in Brooklyn, NY.
  • Graduated from Boys High School in Brooklyn in 1907.
  • Studied at the Pratt Institute.
  • BA in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University (then Sibley College) in 1912.[2]
  • Attended Auburn Seminary for a year, but left before completing his studies there.
  • Returned to Cornell as a graduate student.
  • MME in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell in 1916.[3]
    • Thesis: The Operating Characteristics of the Leblanc Vacuum Pump, advisor unknown.
  • Instructor of heat and power engineering at Cornell 1913-1916.[4]
  • Assistant Professor of Power Engineering at Cornell 1916-1918.[5]
  • Naval ordinance inspector for the US government in 1918.[6]
  • Daughter born 1920.[7]
  • Technical engineer for Cornell power plant 1919-1925.
  • Technical engineer of power plants for Detroit Edison company 1919-1925.
  • Patent holder for several types of pressure gauges, including the following:
    • "Compensating Gauge" (#1420953, filed April 1920)
    • "Automatic Compensating Gauge" (#1413514, filed April 1920)
    • "Compensating Gauge" (#1376505 and #1444098, filed May 1920)
    • "Absolute Pressure Gauge" (#1414854, filed Dec 1920)
    • "Terminal Difference Gauge" (#1629063, filed April 1924)
  • Associate editor of Power magazine 1925-1929.
  • Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Harvard University in 1928.
  • Named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1931.
  • Gordon McKay Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Harvard from 1935-1955.
  • Published "Flow and Fan" in 1954.
  • Retired in 1955.
  • Died in 1965.

[edit] Well known students

[edit] Selected Publications

  • Flow and fan: principles of moving air through ducts; elements of fan selection and control, duct arrangement and resistance, system characteristics and flow analysis, clearly stated for students or practicing engineers. Three editions: 1954, 1963, 1972. Industrial Press, New York.
    • Quotation: "Each general class of fan performs in a typical fashion... For the open propeller (the desk fan) there is little to say; we shall say nothing."
  • CH Berry and FE Moreton. "Heat Balance of the Connors Creek Plant of the Detroit Edison Company," Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers 43: 500-548, 1921.
  • CH Berry. "Section 8.8, Preferred Numbers," Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers, 7th Ed. McGraw Hill, 1967.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Northeastern University Library.
  2. ^ Cornell Alumni News 24(32) p. 380
  3. ^ Cornell Alumni News 24(32) p. 380
  4. ^ Cornell Alumni News 24(32) p. 380
  5. ^ Cornell Alumni News 24(32) p. 380
  6. ^ Cornell Alumni News 24(32) p. 380
  7. ^ Cornell Alumni News 24(32) p. 380