Charles Fayette Taylor papers

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Taylor, Fayette Charles. Charles Fayette Taylor papers. 1912-1990.

Charles Fayette Taylor papers

1912-1990

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Charles Fayette Taylor, 1894-1996 , BS 1915, MS in mechanical engineering,1920, Yale University, was an ensign in the Naval Reserve Corps during World War I, in charge of the Navy's Aeronautical Engine Laboratory in Washington, DC. From 1920 to 1923 he managed the U.S. Army's Air Service Laboratory at McCook Airfield in Dayton, Ohio, where he supervised engine endurance tests, aircraft flight tests, and fuel anti-knock tests. He directed airplane engine design and development at the Wright Aeronautical Corporation from 1923 to 1926, when the Wright Corporation was developing the air-cooled "Whirlwind" engine used on the flights of Lindbergh, Byrd, and Chamberlain. Taylor came to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1926 as an associate professor of aeronautical engineering; he was made professor and acting head of the course in engineering in 1931. In 1933 he left the aeronautical engineering department to become professor of mechanical engineering and director of the new Sloan Automotive Laboratory, a position he held until his retirement in 1960. His research on the internal combustion engine, both for the airplane and the automobile, included experiments on detonation, combustion, fuel composition, friction, air capacity, piston/valve ratios, high speed diesel engines, and engine thermodynamics. With his brother, Edward Story Taylor, director of the Gas Turbine Laboratory at MIT, he was co-author of the text (1938, revised 1961), and in 1960 he published another text, . Upon retirement in 1960, he pursued his career as a professional artist noted for his metal sculptures. The Internal Combustion Engine The Internal Combustion Engine in Theory and Practice

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