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HERMAN E. SHEETS
Pages 264-271

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... Final Tribute Vol 13.indd 264 3/23/10 3:42:36 PM
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From page 265...
... He then graduated in 1936 from Charles University-Technical University, in Prague, with a Doctor of Technical Sciences degree in applied mechanics and the award for excellence. He began his career designing fans, pumps, and steam turbines for Erste Bruenner Maschinen Fabrik in Brno, Czechoslovakia.
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From page 266...
... Paul Engineering Company where he developed hydraulic machinery and valves, including valves for the Manhattan Project. In 1944, the Manhattan Project transferred him to the Elliott Company in Jeannette, Pennsylvania, where he worked on the development of pumps (for the fluids for which he had designed and built valves at St.
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From page 267...
... Thus, by maintaining an electric current, the pilot had a two hour warning that the fan would fail, enough time to reduce the fan requirements and/or land the plane. With the specific goal of keeping EB profitable and its engineers and skilled workers employed and loyal between submarine contracts, Sheets set to work developing and selling EB specialties, including vane-axial fans for electronic package cooling and for use in marine and commercial heating and ventilating systems and electronic spot-cooling fans; ball valves and actuators (low- and high-pressure ball valves and a three position hydraulic-valve actuator)
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From page 268...
... Also under Sheets' direction, EB produced systems designed to control the tilt of radio telescopes and systems to regulate the air velocity in supersonic wind tunnels, as well as controllable-pitch propellers for tugs and fishing boats and a hovercraft. In addition, Sheets came across a patentable welding process invented by two EB welders; he obtained a patent for them and arranged for the royalties to be paid to them.
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From page 269...
... He read his last professional paper in 2003 to the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, when he also filed his provisional and last patent application for his underwater sail. Final Tribute Vol 13.indd 269 3/23/10 3:42:36 PM
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... Sheets combined Old World manners and American informality in a charming way. A reserved but kind man with a droll sense of humor, he could be coaxed into telling stories from his working life that had the shape of little dramas accented with touches of the ridiculous.
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