Eric Openshaw Taylor
Prof Eric Openshaw Taylor FRSE PRSSA FIEE (c.1900–1987) was a 20th century British electrical engineer and scientific author. He was an early advocate of the use of nuclear power to create electricity.[1]
Life
[edit]He studied Electrical Engineering at the University of London graduating BSc.
He became Professor of Electrical engineering at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh.
In 1944 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Maurice Say, James Cameron Smail, Nicholas Lightfoot and James Sandilands.[2]
In 1956 he succeeded Robert Waldron Plenderleith as President of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts.
He died at Furze Hill in southern England on 16 October 1987.[3]
Publications
[edit]- Power Systems Economics
- Utilisation of Electric Energy
- Performance and Design of A/C Commutator Motors
- Watt, Faraday and Parsons
- Electromechanical Energy Conversion
- Direct Current Machines (with Maurice George Say)
- Nuclear Reactors for Power Generation
- Electric Power Distribution
- Nuclear Power Plant
References
[edit]- ^ "The Performance and Design of a C Commutator Motors Including the Single-Phase Induction Motor | Oxfam GB | Oxfam's Online Shop". Archived from the original on 29 October 2018. Retrieved 29 October 2018.
- ^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 29 October 2018.
- ^ Yearbook of the RSE 1987
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