Glenn Barton Warren (February 28, 1898 – January 11, 1979) was an American

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and inventor, who was vice president and general manager of the turbine division of

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. In 1951 he was awarded the

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. Born in

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, Warren grew up in

Girard, Kansas Girard is a city in and the county seat of Crawford County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 2,496. History Girard was founded in the spring of 1868, in opposition to Crawfordsville, and named ...

. He obtained his BSc at the

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in 1919 with a thesis on combined gas-steam cycles. After his graduation in 1919 he started his lifelong career at

. He started as member of the Test Engineering Program,General Electric. ''The General Electric Story: A Heritage of Innovation, 1876-1999.'' 2000. p. 149. and made it vice president and general manager of the turbine division at General Electric. Warren was awarded the

in 1951, and in the year 1959-60 served as president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. In 1970 he awarded the

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by the American Association of Engineering Societies.

Selected publications

* Walter Edward Blowney, Glenn B. Warren. ''The Increase in Thermal Efficiency Due to Resuperheating in Steam Turbines.'' University of Wisconsin—Madison, 1924. * Glenn B. Warren. ''Proposed Reciprocating Internal Combustion Engine with Constant Pressure Combustion: Combustion Chamber Separated from Cylinders (modified Brayton Cycle).'' Society of Automotive Engineers, 1969. * Glenn B. Warren, ''Some factors influencing motorcar fuel consumption in service,'' 1965. ;Patents, a selection * Glenn B. Warren.
Patent US1631660 - Elastic-eltrid turbine
" 1927. * Glenn B. Warren and Arthur R. Smith,
Patent US2451261 - High and low pressure turbine rotor cooling
" 1948. * Glenn B. Warren.
US2552239 - Turbine rotor cooling arrangement
" 1951.

References

1898 births 1979 deaths 20th-century American businesspeople American mechanical engineers category: University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Engineering alumni People from Girard, Kansas People from Bates County, Missouri ASME Medal recipients John Fritz Medal recipients Presidents of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers 20th-century American engineers 20th-century American inventors {{US-mechanical-engineer-stub