Picture No | 10216272 |
Date | 1882 |
Description | Ayrton and Perry |
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Professor William Ayrton and Professor John Perry, electrical engineers. Ayrton held the post of Professor of Natural Philosophy and Telegraphy at the Imperial College of Engineering, Japan, later becoming a Fellow of the Royal Society and holding several teaching posts, with a reputation for excellent, practical-based teaching. Together with Perry, he invented many electrical measuring instruments, including a spiral-spring ammeter and wattmeter. They also developed an electrical railway and invented the first electrical tricycle in 1882.
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Source | The Graphic, 22 April 1882, page 392 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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