De Volson Wood
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American engineer
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Why Is De Volson Wood Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, De Volson Wood was an American civil engineer and educator. He invented a steam rock drill and an air compressor 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.
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