Martin Frisch
Martin Frisch (November 22, 1899 – June 16, 1959)[1] was an Hungarian/American mechanical engineer, director of Foster Wheeler Corporation in New York City, and inventor. He is known for his contributions to the "development of modern practices in fuel pulverizing and steam generation.",[2] and as recipient of the 1958 ASME Medal[3]
1.1 Early life and education
1.2 Further career and acknowledgement
2 Selected publications
Frisch was born 1899 in Csebze, Hungary, now Cebza in Timiș County in Romania. He came with his family to the United States in 1909, where they settled in St. Louis, and naturalized in 1917.[4] Frisch was named after his father, also engineer and inventor, who filed his first patent request from St. Louis in 1914.[5]
After regular education Frisch was a student at the Washington University from 1917 to 1919, and from the University of Illinois from 1919 to 1921. In 1921 he obtained his BSc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois.[4]
Further career and acknowledgement[edit]
After his graduation in 1921 Frisch started as manager of field engineering at the Combustion Engineering company.[6] In 1929 Frisch joined the Foster Wheeler Corporation in New York City, an Industrial Research Laboratory, where he worked his way up.[7] He started as engineer in charge of engineering in the furnace and pulverizer division of the corporation in 1929,[8] and made it chief engineer in 1940.[9] In 1948 he was vice-president in charge of engineering, and elected as a director of the corporation,[10] a double position he still held in 1952.[2]
Frisch was awarded over 50 patents in "fuel pulverization, steam generation, combustion, manufacturing methods and other areas of heat engineering." In 1958 the ASME awarded him their highest recommendation, the ASME Medal.
Selected publications[edit]
Frisch, Martin. "Pulverized-fuel-burning furnace." U.S. Patent No. 1,734,669. 5 Nov. 1929.
Eric, Lundgren, and Frisch Martin. "Finely divided fuel burning furnace." U.S. Patent No. 1,866,404. 5 Jul. 1932.
Frisch, Martin. "Pulverizing apparatus." U.S. Patent No. 1,898,086. 21 Feb. 1933.
Frisch, Martin. "Burner." U.S. Patent No. 1,950,980. 13 Mar. 1934.
Frisch, Martin. "Heater." U.S. Patent No. 2,305,611. 22 Dec. 1942.
Frisch, Martin, "Method and apparatus for Method and apparatus for temperature regulation," Patent US2319223, 1943.
Frisch, Martin, "Vapor generator," U.S. Patent No. 2,405,573. 13 Aug. 1946.
^ Power Plant Engineering. Volume 63, Nr. 7-12, 1959. p. 4
^ a b Mechanical Engineering, Volume 74. 1952. p. 611
^ ASME. Mechanical Engineering, Volume 80. 1958.
^ a b Who was who in American history-science and technology: a component of who's who in American history. Marquis Who's Who, 1 dec. 1976. p. 210.
^ Frisch, Martin. "Patent US1167687 - Sole and heel inking machine." 1914.
^ Milwaukee Engineering. Volumes 3-10. 1923. p. 68
^ John W. Leonard, Winfield Scott Downs, M. M. Lewis, Who's who in Engineering, Volume 8. 1959. p. 846
^ Electrical World. Volume 94. 1929. p. 1247
^ National Research Council (U.S.). Industrial Research Laboratories of the United States. 1940. p. 106.
^ Marine Engineering and Shipping Review, Volume 53. 1948, p. 138
ASME Medal
1921: Hjalmar G. Carlson
1922: Frederick A. Halsey
1923: John R. Freeman
1926: Robert Andrews Millikan
1927: Wilfred Lewis
1928: Julian Kennedy
1930: W. L. R. Emmet
1931: Albert Kingsbury
1933: Ambrose Swasey
1934: Willis Carrier
1935: Charles T. Main
1936: Edward Bausch
1937: Edward P. Bullard Jr.
1938: Stephen J. Pigott
1939: James E. Gleason
1940: Charles F. Kettering
1941: Theodore von Karman
1942: Ervin G. Bailey
1943: Lewis K. Sillcox
1944: Edward G. Budd
1945: William F. Durand
1946: Morris E. Leeds
1947: Paul W. Kiefer
1948: Frederick G. Keyes
1949: Fred L. Dornbrook
1950: Harvey C. Knowles
1951: Glenn B. Warren
1952: Nevin E. Funk
1953: Crosby Field
1954: E. Burnley Powell
1955: Granville M. Read
1956: Harry F. Vickers
1957: Llewellyn M. K. Boelter
1958: Wilbur H. Armacost
1959: Martin Frisch
1960: C. Richard Soderberg
1962: Philip Sporn
1963: Igor I. Sikorsky
1964: Alan Howard
1965: Jan Burgers
1967: Mayo D. Hersey
1968: Samuel C. Collins
1969: Lloyd H. Donnell
1970: Robert R. Gilruth
1971: Horace Smart Beattie
1972: Waloddi Weibull
1973: Christopher C. Kraft Jr.
1974: Nicholas J. Hoff
1975: Maxime A. Faget
1976: Raymond D. Mindlin
1977: Robert W. Mann
1979: Jacob P. Den Hartog
1980: Soichiro Honda
1981: Robert S. Hahn
1983: Jack N. Binns Sr.
1984: Aaron Cohen
1985: Milton C. Shaw
1986: Orlan W. Boston
1987: Philip G. Hodge
1988: Eric Reissner
1989: William R. Sears
1990: Harley A. Wilhelm
1992: Daniel C. Drucker
1993: Richard H. Gallagher
1996: Robert C. Dean Jr.
1997: Bernard Budiansky
1998: Frank Kreith
1999: H. Norman Abramson
2000: Arther E. Bergles
2001: Warren M. Rohsenow
2002: Leroy S. Fletcher
2003: Norman R. Augustine
2004: Bradford W. Parkinson
2005: Robert E. Uhrig
2006: Richard J. Goldstein
2007: Dean L. Kamen
2008: Frank E. Talke
2009: Nam Pyo Suh
2010: John Abele
2011: Clayton Daniel Mote Jr.
2012: Jan D. Achenbach
2013: Siavouche Nemat-Nasser
2014: Van C. Mow
2015: James R. Rice
2016: J. N. Reddy
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American mechanical engineers
20th-century American businesspeople
Hungarian mechanical engineers
Washington University in St. Louis alumni
University of Illinois alumni
People from Timiș County
ASME Medal recipients