Sanford Alexander Moss

Sanford Alexander Moss (August 23, 1872 – November 10, 1946) was an American aviation engineer, who was the first to use a turbocharger on an aircraft engine.[1][2] Sanford Moss was born 1872 in San Francisco, California to Ernest Goodman Moss nd Josephine Sanford.[2] He received his B.S. and M.S. in engineering from the University of California, San Francisco. On August 23, 1899 he married Jennie Edith Somerville Donnely in Chicago, Illinois.[2] Moss received his Ph.D. from Cornell University where he built his first gas turbine engine. In 1903 after graduation, Moss became an engineer for General Electric's[1] Steam Turbine Department in Lynn, Massachusetts.[3] At GE he worked with Elihu Thomson, Edwin W. Rice, and Charles Steinmetz. While there, he applied some of his concepts in the development of the turbosupercharger. His design used a small turbine wheel, driven by exhaust gases, to turn a supercharger.[3]