Eric Openshaw Taylor Explained

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

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

• 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

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Performance and Design of a C Commutator Motors Including the Single-Phase Induction Motor | Oxfam GB | Oxfam's Online Shop . 29 October 2018 . 29 October 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181029211910/https://www.oxfam.org.uk/shop/product/the-performance-and-design-of-a-c-commutator-motors-including-the-single-phase-hd_100816088 . dead .
2. Book: Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002. July 2006. The Royal Society of Edinburgh. 0-902-198-84-X. 2018-10-29. 2016-03-04. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074135/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf. dead.
3. Yearbook of the RSE 1987