Person Stoney; George Gerald (1863 - 1942); mechanical engineer Stoney George Gerald mechanical engineer 1863 - 1942 British Male Dublin, Ireland 28 November 1863 18631128 His home, Oakley, Heaton Road North, Newcastle upon Tyne, England 15/05/1942 19420515 Burial: Corbridge, Northumberland, England.

Oakley, Heaton Road North, Newcastle upon Tyne, England (1942)

mechanical engineer Mechanical engineering 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 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) Pioneer of the steam turbine and high speed dynamo electric machine. Fellow 04/05/1911 48 John Joly James Alfred Ewing William HenryWhite James Emerson Reynolds Charles Algernon Parsons Frederick Thomas Trouton 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 International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbm.1942.0015 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/action/doSearch?ContribAuthorRaw=Stoney%2C+George+Gerald 28 Nov 1863 - 15 May 1942 The past Fellows entries are under continuous revision. If you have queries or additional information to contribute, please contact Library@royalsociety.org. Content in external sources is not controlled by the Royal Society and historical sources may include content that is now unacceptable. Reviewed on 09/10/2024 as part of the Name Authority Project update. NA6263 21/11/2001 Andyg Martind 17/03/2026 RS_NET\VirginiaM Yes 518b03bc-2ace-4c84-b3e2-78f7063d1b90