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DAUGHERTY 14.09. 1885 Irvington IN/USA 20.08. 1978 Pasadena CA/USA Robert Long Daugherty obtained his AB and ME degrees from Leland Stanford University, Stanford CA, in 1909 and 1914, respectively. He was from 1909 to 1910 there an instructor, then until 1916 an assistant hydraulics professor at Cornell University, Ithaca NY, and professor of hydraulic engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic, Troy NY, from 1916 to 1919. Daugherty was professor of hydraulic and mechanical engineering at Caltech, Pasadena CA, from then until retirement in 1956. In parallel he was consultant of numerous firms and corporations, including the Metropolitan Water District on pumps for the Colorado River Aqueduct, or the Bureau of Reclamation USBR on pumps for the Grand Coulee project on Columbia River from 1938 to 1940. He was a member of the ASME Commission for Revision of Code for Testing of Hydraulic Power Plants. Daugherty is known for a number of books in mechanical engineering, relating to the design and execution of turbines and pumps. His book Hydraulic turbines was first published in 1913. The third edition includes the following chapters: 1. Introduction, 2. Types of turbines and settings, 3. Water power, 4. Tangential water wheel, 5. Reaction turbine, 6. Turbine governors, 7. General theory, 8. Theory of tangential water wheel, 9. Theory of reaction turbine, 10. Turbine testing, 11. General laws and constants, 12. Turbine characteristics, 13. Selection of type of turbine, 14. Cost of turbines and water power, 15. Design of tangential water wheel, 16. Design of reaction turbine, and 17. Centrifugal pumps. Besides he published books on the various chapters of his previous book. He was closely related with ASME all through his career. Anonymous (1959). Daugherty, Robert L. Who’s who in engineering 8: 563. Lewis: New York. Anonymous (1969). Robert L. Daugherty. Mechanical Engineering 91(11): 108. P Anonymous (1978). Robert L. Daugherty. Mechanical Engineering 100(11): 109. Daugherty, R.L. (1915). Centrifugal pumps. McGraw-Hill: New York. Daugherty, R.L. (1920). Hydraulic turbines. McGraw-Hill: New York. Daugherty, R.L. (1930). Pumping machinery. Mechanical Engineering 52(4): 381-382. P Daugherty, R.L. (1937). Hydraulics: Text on practical fluid mechanics. McGraw-Hill: New York. Daugherty, R.L. (1938). Centrifugal pumps for the Colorado River Aqueduct. Mechanical Engineering 60(4): 295-299. Daugherty, R.L. (1961). Fluid properties. Handbook of fluid dynamics 1: 1-22, V.L. Streeter, ed. McGraw-Hill: New York.
