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.{{Cite web |url=https://www.oxfam.org.uk/shop/product/the-performance-and-design-of-a-c-commutator-motors-including-the-single-phase-hd_100816088 |title=The Performance and Design of a C Commutator Motors Including the Single-Phase Induction Motor | Oxfam GB | Oxfam's Online Shop |access-date=29 October 2018 |archive-date=29 October 2018 |archive-url=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 |url-status=dead }}

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.{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0-902-198-84-X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|access-date=2018-10-29|archive-date=2016-03-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074135/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|url-status=dead}}

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.Yearbook of the RSE 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

Category:1987 deaths

Category:British electrical engineers

Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh