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Charles Benjamin Dudley

American engineer
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Born:
July 14, 1842, Oxford, N.Y., U.S.
Died:
Dec. 21, 1909, Altoona, Pa. (aged 67)
Subjects Of Study:
materials testing
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Charles Benjamin Dudley (born July 14, 1842, Oxford, N.Y., U.S.—died Dec. 21, 1909, Altoona, Pa.) was an American chemical engineer who helped found the science of materials testing. Entering Yale College in 1867, Dudley worked his way through school as a night editor on the New Haven Palladium and eventually earned his Ph.D. from the Sheffield Scientific School, as well as election to Phi Beta Kappa. In 1875 he was appointed chemist to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, where he instituted a program of research on the composition and properties of rails. The publication of Dudley’s study “The Chemical Composition and ...(100 of 188 words)

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