William Archibald Davidson Forbes
William Archibald Davidson Forbes R.C.N.C., M.I.N.A.
1890 Born in Hackney, son of John Davidson Forbes, a bookseller's assistant, and his wife Florence[1]
1911 Engineering apprentice working for a shipbuilder, lived with his parents in Hackney[2]
1920 Worked at the Admiralty, Department of the Director of Naval Construction[3]
For some years Forbes and his colleague, H. A. Hepburn B.Sc., A.M.I.Mech. E., studied the problems of the internal combustion turbine and proposed the Hepburn-Forbes system to address them; this was a sub-atmospheric, single-fluid, constant-pressure cycle which seemed to Hepburn and Forbes to have the most promising line of development[4]
1922 of London
1946 With Dr J. E. Harris presented a paper at the Institution of Naval Architects on underwater paints and the fouling of ships, covering the work carried out by Marine Corrosion Sub-Cornmittee and the Admiralty Corrosion Committee; Forbes was a Member of the Institution[5].
1980 Died in Salisbury[6]