Holyoke, Massachusetts Computing Center, an intercollegiate research facility which opened in 2012. Holyoke is also home to the Volleyball Hall of Fame and known as the "Birthplace of Volleyball", as the internationally played Olympic sport was invented and first played at the local YMCA chapter by William G. Morgan in 1895. While working for the Holyoke Water Power Company in the 1880s, hydraulic engineer Clemens Herschel invented the Venturi meter to determine the water use of individual mills in the Holyoke Canal System. This device, the first accurate means of measuring large-scale flows, is widely used in a number of engineering applications
William Duthie Morgan William Duthie Morgan General Sir William Duthie Morgan GCB DSO MC (15 December 1891 – 13 May 1977) was a British Army officer active during World War I and later in World War II where he commanded the Mediterranean Theater of Operations. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Morgan, he was the son of Alexander Morgan FRSE and his wife Isobel Duthie. The family initially lived at 63 Warrender Park Road in the Marchmont district then moved to 1 Midmar Gardens in the south-west. William was educated at George Watson's College and entered the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and was commissioned as