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Montgomery Knight
Montgomery Knight (February 22, 1901 – July 25, 1943) was an aeronautical engineer who specialized in rotorcraft, rotary-wing aircraft. He was the first director of the Guggenheim School of Aeronautics at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a founder of and long-time researcher at the Georgia Tech Research Institute. Education and early career Knight was born on February 22, 1901, in Holyoke, Massachusetts to Franklin and Gertrude Knight and graduated from Holyoke High School in 1918. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under advisor Edward Pearson Warner, Edward P. Warner, graduating in 1922 with a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering. Knight did graduate work at Johns Hopkins University and Harvard University, and taught courses at MIT. He may have briefly worked for Westinghouse Electric (1886), Westinghouse, given that there are two patents for electrical equipment under his name. He joined the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holyoke, Massachusetts
Holyoke is a city in Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States, that lies between the western bank of the Connecticut River and the Mount Tom Range. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 38,238. Located north of Springfield, Holyoke is part of the Springfield Metropolitan Area, one of the two distinct metropolitan areas in Massachusetts. Holyoke is among the early planned industrial cities in the United States. Built in tandem with the Holyoke Dam to utilize the water power of Hadley Falls, it is one of a handful of cities in New England built on the grid plan. During the late 19th century the city produced an estimated 80% of the writing paper used in the United States and was home to the largest paper mill architectural firm in the country, as well as the largest paper, silk, and alpaca wool mills in the world. Although a considerably smaller number of businesses in Holyoke work in the paper industry today, it is still commonly referred to as "The Paper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
