Donald E. Bently, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetDonald E. Bently
American businessman
Date of Birth: 18-Oct-1924
Place of Birth: Muscatine, Iowa, United States
Date of Death: 01-Oct-2012
Profession: businessperson
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Donald E. Bently
- Donald E.
- Bently (October 18, 1924 - October 1, 2012) was a globally recognized authority on rotor dynamics and vibration monitoring and diagnostics, and an American entrepreneur and engineer.
- He was best known as the founder and former owner of Bently Nevada Corporation where he performed pioneering work in the field of instrumentation for measuring the mechanical condition of rotating machinery.
- He founded Bently Nevada in October, 1961, and served as its CEO until February, 2002.
- He sold the company to GE Energy in February, 2002, and in 2017 GE merged it into Baker Hughes.
- It continues to design, manufacture, and market these products and services under the Baker Hughes, a GE company, brand. Following the sale of the company, Bently remained active in his other family-owned businesses representing a diverse range of interests including rotordynamics, agriculture, biofuels, real estate, externally pressurized fluid bearings, and machinery diagnostics.
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