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.
Life
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.
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.
Publications
- 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
- "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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