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Parsons Corporation is an American multinational technology-focused defense, intelligence, and infrastructure engineering firm. Founded in 1944, [ 2 ] Parsons is headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia , and serves both government and private sector organizations in more than 30 countries.
Parsons Engineering Co. Ltd of Town Quay works, Southampton was originally incorporated in 1904 as Parsons Motor Co. Ltd by Mr Harry Parsons (1873-1951). [1] It was advertised both as repairers of Motor Cars, [ 2 ] but also as sellers of Motor Boats and engine and propeller sets.
In 1944, Parsons was one of 19 companies which formed the 'Parsons and Marine Engineering Turbine Research and Development Association', usually known as Pametrada. The destroyer HMS Glamorgan, launched in 1964, [2] had a Parsons propulsion system. The Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth 2, launched in 1969, had Parsons turbines.
CHANTILLY, Va., Nov. 01, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Parsons Corporation (NYSE:PSN) announced today that it has completed the previously announced acquisition of BCC Engineering, LLC (BCC), one of Florida's leading transportation engineering firms, in an all-cash transaction valued at $230 million.
WSP USA, formerly Parsons Brinckerhoff, is an American multinational engineering and design firm. [1] The firm operates in the fields of strategic consulting, planning, engineering, construction management, energy, infrastructure and community planning. It is a subsidiary of WSP Global.
Parsons was interested in engineering from an early age. At age 13, he opened a garage and machine shop in Amagansett, Long Island, with his brother. He studied machine design at Pratt Institute and graduated in 1916. [2] He then enlisted in the US Navy, leaving in the mid-1920s to specialize in oil refinery engineering.
Parsons (dark vest) and GALCIT colleagues in the Arroyo Seco, Halloween 1936.JPL marks this experiment as its foundation. [22] [23]In hopes of gaining access to the state-of-the-art resources of Caltech for their rocketry research, Parsons and Forman attended a lecture on the work of Austrian rocket engineer Eugen Sänger and hypothetical above-stratospheric aircraft by the institute's William ...
Parsons Corporation, engineering firm headquartered in Centreville, Virginia; Parsons Dance Company, based in New York City; Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company, company founded by Charles Parsons to build marine steam turbines; WSP Global, formerly Parsons Brinckerhoff, engineering firm headquartered in New York City