Charles Algernon Parsons (1854 to 1931) was a British engineer, best known for his invention of the multi-stage, or compounded, steam turbine. Born in London as the youngest son of the astronomer Lord Rosse, he graduated in mathematics from Cambridge in 1877 and went on to the Elswick works of W. G. Armstrong and Company. In 1884, while a junior partner at Clarke, Chapman and Company in Gateshead, he patented a steam turbine and completed the first turbo-generator, now kept in the London Science Museum; by 1888 about 200 were in service, mainly for lighting on ships. In 1889 he founded C. A. Parsons and Company at Heaton, Newcastle, and over his career he held more than 300 patents.
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Sir Charles Algernon Parsons (13 June 1854-11 February 1931) was an Anglo-Irish mechanical engineer and inventor who designed the modern steam turbine in 1884.
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