John Perry (engineer)

John Perry (engineer)

John Perry (1850-1920) was a pioneering engineer and mathematician from Ireland.

He was born on February 14 1850 at Garvagh, County Londonderry, the second son of Samuel Perry and a Scottish-born wife.

He worked as Lord Kelvin's assistant at the University of Glasgow, and later became professor of mechanical engineering at Finsbury Technical College.

Perry was a colleague of William Edward Ayrton and John Milne at the Imperial College of Engineering in Tokyo, 1875-79. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Society.

References

* Entry by Graeme Gooday in the "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography"


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