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