1910 American Academy of Arts and Sciences Benjamin Count Rumford Award Medal For Sale

Up for your consideration is a 1910 American Academy of Arts and Sciences Benjamin Count Rumford Medal Awarded to Charles Gordon Curtis for his improvements in the steam turbine.The Rumford Prize for which this medal is awarded was established in 1796, though Moritz Furst did not complete the dies for the medal until 1839, the year of the first recorded award of the prize to Robert Hare of Philadelphia, the inventor of the oxy-hydrogen blowpipe. The recipient of this piece, Charles Gordon Curtis, was a graduate of Columbia University (1881), where he studied civil engineering, before attending New York Law School. He patented two different types of steam turbines in 1896, and the first gas-powered one in the United States in 1899. Feel free to ask questions or for more pictures. Please check out our other listings. Thank you from LANGHAM COINS!