Arnold Tustin
Arnold Tustin, (16 July 1899 – 9 January 1994), was a British engineer, and Professor of Engineering at the University of Birmingham and at Imperial College London, who made important contributions to the development of control engineering[1] and its application to electrical machines.
Biography
Tustin started working in 1914 at the age of 16 as apprenticed to the Parsons Company of Newcastle upon Tyne. He entered Armstrong College, later part of Newcastle University, in 1916, served in the Royal Engineers in World War I, and eventually received his Master degree in science in 1922.[2]
In 1922 he joined Metropolitan-Vickers (Metro-Vick) as a graduate trainee. Early 1930s he worked for Metro-Vick in Russia for two years, advising and selling equipment to the government companies. Here he wrote his first book on the design of electric motors, which was also translated into Russian.[2] Late 1930s and continuing during World War II Tustin was working on the Metadyne constant-current DC generator for gun control.[3] He also developed new methods for gyroscopic stabilisation, and he further applied servo-mechanisms to tanks and naval guns.[2]
After the war in 1947 he was appointed Professor of Engineering and head of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Birmingham until 1955. In the year 1953-54 he had been Visiting Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and from 1955 to 1964 he was Professor of Engineering at Imperial College London.[3] Arnold Tustin was married to Frances Tustin, a pioneering psychotherapist and authority on autism.
Tustin's primary concern has been in the field of electrical machines, but his interests was much wider in the fields of systems thinking, control systems, and even economics and biology.[4]
Publications
Tustin was the author of several books and many published papers on electrical machines, a selection.
- 1952. Automatic and manual control: Papers contributed to the Conferences at Cranfield, 1951, Volume 1951,Deel 1 Academic Press
- 1952. Direct current machines for control systems
- 1953, The Mechanism of Economic Systems, Cambridge, MA. : Harvard Univ. Press., (2e ed. 1957)
- 1956. The Next Ten Years of Electrical Engineering
- 1957. Automatic Control. With Ernest Nagel
- About Tustin
- 1992, "Pioneers of Control: an interview with Arnold Tustin", Chris Bissell in: IEE Review, June 1992, pp. 223–226
- 1994, "Arnold Tustin 1899-1994", Chris Bissell in: Int. J. Control, Vol 60, No 5, Nov 1994, pp. 649 – 652
References
- ↑ Malcolm C. Smith (1997), The Development of Control Engineering in Britain and the Cambridge Contribution, retrieved 23 April 2008.
- 1 2 3 Curzon, L. B. (18 February 1994). "Obituary: Professor Arnold Tustin". The Independent. Retrieved 23 October 2013.
- 1 2 Institution of Engineering and Technology website on IEE.org.
- ↑ Peter E. Wellstead (2008), Systems Biology and the Spirit of Tustin. Retrieved 23 April 2008.
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