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John Perry (engineer)

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See also John Perry (born 1943).

John Perry

John Perry (1850-1920) F.R.S. was an Ulsterman and engineer.

Born on February 14, 1850 at Garvagh, Ulster the second son of Samuel Perry and a Scottish-born wife.

He worked as Lord Kelvin's assistant at Glasgow University, and later as a 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.


References

  • Entry by Graham Gooday in the New Dictionary of National Biography
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