Martin C. Hemsworth

(1918- ) lived in Lincoln. Mechanical engineer, contributed as General Electric engineering manager to all phases of aircraft gas turbine design and development, including responsibility for first high bypass turbofan jet engine now used in commercial aircraft worldwide, which improved efficiency, thrust, and quietness compared to jet engines of the 1950s, elected to National Academy of Engineering, inducted into the General Electric Aircraft Hall of Fame in 1987. Consult Indian Hill /Ohio/Bulletin, October 28, 1977, p. 4 and Automotive Engineering, Vol 89 (December 1981) 18.

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