About Robert W. Hunt
Lived 1838 – 1923 (aged 84). Robert W. Hunt was an American engineer.
Robert Woolston Hunt (December 9, 1838 – July 11, 1923) was an American metallurgical engineer, inventor, and superintendent in the steel industry. He was president of the American Institute of Mining Engineers in 1883 and 1906; president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in the year 1891–92; and president of the Western Society of Engineers in 1893.
Biography Early career Born in Fallsington, Pennsylvania, he was the only son of Dr. Robert A. Hunt and Martha Lancaster Woolston. In 1923 he received the Washington Award.
His estate endowed the Hunt Professorship in Metallurgical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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American metallurgical engineer
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Robert W. Hunt was born on 9 December 1838 in Fallsington.
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Robert W. Hunt died on 11 July 1923 in Chicago.
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Robert W. Hunt was an engineer.
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