Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Harold Kenneth Whitehorn

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Harold Kenneth Whitehorn (1888- )

Born the son of Thomas Pye Whitehorn, a Gas Fitter, and his wife Emma Elizabeth Isabel Belcher

1915 married at Wantage to Hilda May Punyer and one son and one daughter

1922 B.Sc. (Lond.), A.M.I.E.E., Electrical Engineer, 18, Meadow Road, Southall, Middlesex. b. 1888. Ed. King Alfred's Grammar School, Wantage; Northampton (Polytechnic) Institute; Engineering Day College, London, E.C. Apprentice, British Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co., Manchester. With H. M. Hobart, M.Inst.C.E., etc., London, later Chief Electrical Designer, J. L. Manufacturing Co., and Submersible Motors, Ltd., Southall. Adviser on commercial designs. Designer of first successful alternating current submersible electric motor capable of admitting sea water. Publications: Various articles in technical press. War Services.- Closely associated with the salvage work for Admiralty done by submersible motors, saving H.M.S. "Lion," etc.

1926 Electrically Operated Governors for Controlling Prime Movers.

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