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Sidney Armor Reeve (March 27, 1866, in Dayton, Ohio - June 12, 1941, in Nyack, NY) was an author and professor of Steam and Hydraulic Engineering at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute between 1896-1906. He was employed as a consulting engineer in New York City between 1908 and 1932 and held over 50 patents on inventions.
Biography
He founded the scientific field of Social Energetics, which was later expanded on by Frederick Soddy in his book The Role of Money.
He was inspired by reading Henry George to investigate sociology. He came to the conclusion that the same mathematics and reasoning applied equally to entropy, energy and thermodynamics in steam boilers as well as in the social body.
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