| Authorised form of name | Stoney; George Gerald (1863 - 1942); mechanical engineer |
| Dates | 1863 - 1942 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Dublin, Ireland |
| Date of birth | 28 November 1863 |
| Place of death | His home, Oakley, Heaton Road North, Newcastle upon Tyne, England |
| Date of death | 15/05/1942 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Burial:
With his wife at Corbridge, Northumberland, England. |
| Occupation | mechanical engineer |
| Research field | Mechanical engineering |
| Activity | Education:
BA; BAI (Trinity College, Dublin)
Career:
Worked with his uncle Bindon Blood Stoney (FRS 1881), chief engineer of the Dublin Port and Docks Board (1887); employed at Clarke, Chapman, and Co, working with Charles Algernon Parsons (FRS 1898) (1888); formed C. A. Parsons and Co, with Charles Algernon Parsons, working as a fitter (1889); manager of the searchlight reflector department, and foreman of the test house (1893); chief designer of the steam turbine department (1895); technical manager of the entire Heaton works (1910); left Parsons working as a consultant with a licensee of Parsons (1912); joint secretary of the 4 Tyneside Irish battalions and member of the Admiralty board of invention and research, and on the anti-submarine scientific research committee (1914-1918); Professor of mechanical engineering in the College of Technology at Manchester (1917-1926); left Manchester, Director of research at Heaton (1926); retired (1930).
Memberships:
MICE; MIEE |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 04/05/1911 |
| Age at election | 48 |
| Proposer | John Joly |
| James Alfred Ewing |
| William HenryWhite |
| James Emerson Reynolds |
| Charles Algernon Parsons |
| Frederick Thomas Trouton |
| Relationships | Parents: George Johnstone Stoney (1826–1911) (FRS 1861) physicist, and Margaret Sophia Stoney (d. 1872).
Uncle: Bindon Blood Stoney (FRS 1881)
Cousin: George Francis FitzGerald (FRS 1883) |
| OtherInfo | Pioneer of the steam turbine and high speed dynamo electric machine. |
| Royal Society Obituary or Memoir | Click to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices) |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1942-1944 vol 4 pp 183-196, plate, by Robert Dowson |
| Code | NA6263 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1911/18 | Stoney, George Gerald: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| NLB/27/874 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Dr George Gerald Stoney, Fellow of the Royal Society | 16 December 1903 |
| NLB/37/754 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to The Honorable C [Charles] A [Algernon] Parsons, Fellow of the Royal Society | 8 May 1908 |
| NLB/39/527 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to A [Alan] A [Archibald] Campbell Swinton | 2 February 1909 |
| NLB/44/393 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison [signed by Theodore E James] to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 3 July 1911 |
| NLB/45/117 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to G [George] G [Gerald] Stoney FRS | 2 January 1912 |
| NLB/44/391 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison [signed by Theodore E James] to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 3 July 1911 |
| NLB/45/483 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to G [George] G [Gerald] Stoney FRS, Oakley, Heaton Road, Newcastle-on-Tyne | 13 March 1912 |
| NLB/47/817 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to G [George] Gerald Stoney FRS | 16 April 1913 |
| NLB/50/739 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [George Gerald] Stoney, Fellow of the Royal Society | 27 October 1914 |
| NLB/59/579 | Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [George Gerald] Stoney, FRS | 21 October 1920 |
| NLB/61/203 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [George] Gerald Stoney, FRS | 1 June 1921 |
| NLB/55/571 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Professor George Gerald] Stoney, FRS | 14 June 1918 |
| NLB/66/173 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [George Gerald] Stoney, FRS | 7 March 1924 |
| EC/1911/17 | Stoney, George Gerald: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| MC/23/445 | Letter from [George] Johnstone Stoney, 30 Chepstow Crescent, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society] | 4 January 1908 |
| MC/27/333 | Letter from Gerald Stoney, The Cairn Hydro, Harrogate, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society] | 12 December 1912 |
| MC/31/203 | Letter from Gerald Stoney, Oakley, Heaton Road North, Newcastle on Tyne, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, Secretary, The Royal Society, Burlington House, London | 13 December 1916 |
| MC/32/257 | Letter from Gerald [Gerald] Stoney, "Oakley", Heaton Road North, Newcastle-on-Tyne, to Robert Harrison, Secretary, Royal Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W | 7 February 1917 |