Charles Gordon Curtis received ASME awards in 1948 and 1950, decades after his 1899 gas-turbine patent. He was born in 1860 and lived until March 1953. His lifetime covers most of the long gap between the early patent era and gas turbines going to sea in a commissioned warship.
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Charles Gordon Curtis and the long turbine development gap
Curtis patented a gas turbine in 1899 and lived from 1860 to 1953, giving one engineer's lifetime as a measure of the delay before gas turbines reached commissioned warships.