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
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
References
- https://www.oxfam.org.uk/shop/product/the-performance-and-design-of-a-c-commutator-motors-including-the-single-phase-hd_100816088
- 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.
- Yearbook of the RSE 1987
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