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Karassik
(1911-1995)
&or J. Karassik died July 2, 1995,
at his borne in Maplewood,
New
Jersey. This tribute to one of the
greatest pump engineers bas been
prepared
by his friend and colleac
gue J. T. McGuire.
whose position
the
adage:
If you want
discussion,
just
controversial
that
new
retorted
emigres
Igor Karassik
to the United
was
initiated
into
Worthington
of significant
centrifugal
pump
advances
design.
the
in
for a
in the art of
As notable
as these
stimulate
a firm
To those
approaches
created
progress
a lively
statement
who
on a
protested
problems,
problems
is made
he
then dont
by solving
the
caused by progress!.
The concept
pattern
make
to
subject.
do anything;
One of the six Russians
was frequently
of suction
early. Developed
Wislicenus
and
specific
jointly
R.M.
Watson
in
1937,
the
between
a simple
means
of determining
to the mans
contribution
to the industry.
His
treated
of the whole
being
greater
than
the sum
of
the parts.
lucidity
him
an imaginative
on a range of subjects
behaviour,
made
or complexions,
knowledgeable
whose understanding
sense
of
humour,
exceptional
lifes
realities
in
can
be
The colourful
nights
design
too!.
applied
Karassiks
It was also
and application,
teaching
people
evident
aspects
by
in the
of pump
about
pumps
so they
Karassik
to
could
in the
position of advocating ideas that were controversial. A mark of the mans character is that he
didnt shy away from these differences of opinion.
Within Worthington,
he recognized
that a
corporation
would
usually
Ltd
the
required
next
tolerate
one
man
was
in
hurdle,
permeated
to various
load reductions
plants,
the
sudden
power
cycle
by installing
sleep
during
open
of deaerator
Russian
boiler
feed failures
one
overcome
character
philosophy.
Determining
prematurely
the concepts
wisdom
awakened
from
delayed
These
flight
and educated
which
the conventional
to
traits
attributed,
aristocracy,
design,
was not
establish-
his investigation
and
the Russian
industry.
and
for plant
industry
in his chosen
profession
revolution,
Corporation,
in 1946,
design,
which
anti-flash
a conclusive
could
baffhng.
be
With
and Bechtel