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Fellows of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Willis Jackson, Baron Jackson of Burnley

Fellows of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Willis Jackson, Baron Jackson of Burnley


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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Willis Jackson, Baron Jackson of Burnley FRS (29 October 1904 17 February 1970) was a British technologist and electrical engineer. Born in Burnley, he was the only son of Herbert Jackson and his wife Annie Hiley. Jackson was educated at Rosegrove Primary School and the Burnley Grammar School until 1922 and read electrical engineering at the Victoria University of Manchester until 1925. He obtained a Bachelor of Science first class, having previously won three different scholarships. Jackson studied then under Robert Beattie, graduating with a Master of Science in 1926. Jackson held two honorary degree as Doctor of Science awarded by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich and by the University of Bristol. He was made an honorary Doctor of Engineering by the University of Sheffield and received a Doctor of Laws by the University of Aberdeen as well as by the University of Leeds in 1967. He was granted an honorary fellowship by the City and Guilds of London Institute and by the Institution of Engineering and Technology in 1968. In the same year the University of Dundee conferred upon him another honorary degree and he was elected a fellow by the Royal College of Art. After his education, Jackson became lecturer in electronical engineering first at the Bradford Technical College (now the University of Bradford) until 1929. In the following year he worked as apprentice for the electrical company Metropolitan-Vickers. Jackson lectured at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology from 1930 and subsequently at The Queen's College, Oxford from 1933. He graduated as Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford and as Doctor of Science at Manchester in 1936. Afterwards he became again employed at Vickers working as... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=7562567


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  • ISBN-13: 9781156297032
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 44
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Weight: 77 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1156297036
  • Publisher Date: 31 May 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Willis Jackson, Baron Jackson of Burnley
  • Width: 229 mm


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