William Arnold Anthony

William Arnold Anthony ( born November 17 1835 in Coventry, Rhode Iceland, † May 29, 1908 ) was an American physicist.

Anthony (now Sheffield Science School) formed on the Yale Scientific School in 1860 and made his statements. Between 1857 and 1860 he was director of a school in Crompton, Rhode Iceland. He taught after graduating until 1861 science at Providence Conference Seminar, East Greenwich, Rhode Iceland. The longer it kept him in Franklin, New York, where he taught until 1867. In that year he became professor of physics and chemistry at Antioch College, where he remained until 1870. After a short stay at Iowa Agrucultural college, he finally accepted a position on a chair of physics at Cornell University recently founded, where he remained until his retirement.

Although Anthony worked mainly in teaching, he nevertheless found time for research and development. Between 1857 and 1861 he constructed two types of turbines having an efficiency he steadily improved to 87 percent. The blades he built according to a mathematical model, which he derived from the fluid mechanics.

In 1875 he built an electro-dynamic machine that gave 25 amps at 250 volts. This happened at a time when there were only very general descriptions of such machines. Anthony also constructed a large galvanometer, the electrical currents from 0.1 to 250 amps could very accurately measure.

William Arnold Anthony died on 29 May 1908.

• Physicist (19th Century )
• Inventor
• University teachers ( Cornell University)
• Americans
• Born in 1835
• Died in 1908
• Man