Sanford Moss was born 1872 in San Francisco, California to Ernest Goodman Moss and Josephine Sanford. At GE he worked with
Elihu Thomson,
Edwin W. Rice, and
Charles Steinmetz. While there, he applied some of his concepts in the development of the
turbosupercharger. His design used a small turbine wheel, driven by exhaust gases, to turn a supercharger. After this turbochargers became Moss' life work. Moss was an aviation consultant to the Army and, in 1942, worked with Washington and GE as the company secretly created the 1-A, the first workable US jet aircraft engine, using the turbine principles that Moss had first researched. He died on November 10, 1946, in
Lynn, Massachusetts at 74 years of age. ==References==