De Volson Wood

De Volson Wood
Born(1832-06-01)June 1, 1832
Smyrna, New York, US
DiedJune 27, 1897(1897-06-27) (aged 65)
Hoboken, New Jersey, US
NationalityAmerican
Alma materRensselaer Polytechnic Institute
University of Michigan (M.S. 1859)

De Volson Wood (June 1, 1832 – June 27, 1897) was an American civil engineer and educator. He invented a steam rock drill[1] and an air compressor[2] and designed an ore dock. Wood was a professor, an author of multiple monographs on mathematics and engineering, vice-president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the first president of the American Society for Engineering Education.

  1. ^ De Volson Wood "Rock-drill" U.S. patent 319,653 Issue date: June 9, 1885
  2. ^ De Volson Wood "Improvement in air-compressors" U.S. patent 180,443 Issue date: August 1, 1876