Robert Thurston Kent

In 1896 he started as machinist apprentice at Cooke Locomotive and Machine Works in Paterson, New Jersey and attended the Stevens Prep.

[3] After graduation Kent had started his career as Robins Conveying Belt Company in Passaic, New Jersey in 1902, moved to the Link Belt Corporation in Philadelphia in 1903, and was associate editor for the Electrical Review in New York in 1904.

From 1921 to 1923 he wrote Kent's mechanical engineers' handbook, and was superintendent at Prison Industries in the State of New York from 1924 to 1926.

[4] Just before the US got into World War II Kent was principal production engineer at the United States Army Ordnance Department for a year.

In 1942 he joined Stevenson, Jordan & Harrison, New York City, where he worked in construction engineering.