John Perry (engineer)
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Image:John Perry.jpg 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 the University of Glasgow, 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.
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References
- Entry by Graeme Gooday in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography