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Albert Kingsbury
Albert Kingsbury
OCTOBER 2003
Kingsbury Bearings
Figure 5. Foundry lab, Sibley College, Cornell University (ca. 1885). Figure 2. Cornell University Professor Robert H. Thurston.
blossoming in the 1880s at an exhilarating rate. The American Society of Mechanical Engineers was founded in 1880 with the eminent Prof. Robert H. Thurston, then at the Stevens Institute, as its first president. Within a few years, as a professor at Cornell, he would have a pivotal role in shaping the career of young Albert Kingsbury.