BUSLEY

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7.10.1850 Neustrelitz/D - 13.2.1928 in the Sea

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Carl Busley graduated in 1874 as a mechanical engineer from Gewerbeakademie in Berlin. He then entered the Imperial Marine as a naval engineer to be appointed in 1879 Lecturer of marine machinery at the Marine Academy in Kiel. He was promoted to professor in 1890 and to Geheimer Regierungsrat in 1895. He left TU Berlin in 1906 to direct the Schichau-Werke in Elbing and Danzig, today's Gdańsk in Poland. These were founded in 1837 and specialized in large steel works such as for boats. Busley retired in 1920. He passed away on a trip to Colombo which had caused a serious pneumonia.

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Busley's book on marine machinery appeared in 1883 first. It was later translated into English and Russian. He then presented the historical book on the ships of antiquity which put particularly the Egyptian naval knowledge into perspective. He became internationally known as a jury member during the World Exhibitions of Hamburg in 1889, of Chicago in 1893 and of Paris in 1900. He had a particular talent in organizing professional associations, such as Schiffbautechnische Gesellschaft founded in 1899, for which he was its first president. This association is still vital and one of the largest worldwide. It may be compared with the Institution of Naval Architects in the United Kingdom, or the Association Technique Maritime in France. Busley also initiated in 1881 the Deutscher Verein für Luftschiffahrt in Berlin, whose presidency he had taken over for the term 1901. Also, he was a founding member of Fédération Aéronautique Internationale in 1905, and of the Deutsches Museum in Munich where he added valuable models of ships and naval machinery. He was awarded honorary membership of Schiffbautechnische Gesellschaft and received the honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Berlin in 1912.

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_{Anonymous (1906). Carl Busley. Deutsche Zeitschrift für Luftschiffahrt 10: 376. P Anonymous (1912). Geh. Reg.-Rat Prof. Busley. Deutsche Luftfahrt Zeitschrift 16(9): 233. P Busley, C. (1883). Die Schiffsmaschine - Ihre Bauart, Wirkungsweise und Bedienung. Lipsius&Tischer: Kiel.}

_{Busley, C. (1892). Die Entwicklung der Schiffsmaschine in den letzten Jahrzehnten, ed 3.}

_{Springer: Berlin.}

_{Busley, C. (1919). Schiffe des Altertums. Jahrbuch Schiffbautechnische Gesellschaft 20: 187-190; 21: 602-699.}

_{Foerster, E. (1928). Geheimrat Busley. Werft Reederei Hafen 9(4): 65. P}

_{Presse, E. (1928). Carl Busley. Zeitschrift des Vereines deutscher Ingenieure 72(12): 404-405. P}