Paul Tunbridge, a Chartered Engineer and member of the Institution
of Mechanical Engineers, started his career at RAF Halton and
completed his engineering studies at technical Colleges in
Cheltenham and Corby. Following war and overseas service and
various staff posts, including several years at the Air Ministry,
he opted in 1955 for early retirement to become Personal Assistant
to the Chief Engineer in the design office of Vickers-Armstrongs
(Aircraft), Weybridge. In 1960 he joined the Central Office of the
international Electrical Commission in Geneva where he was Head of
Linguistic Services before retiring in 1986.
The author's interest in the history of science and engineering
standards has extended over many years. He has had a number of
papers published in Notes and Records of the Royal Society and
elsewhere on Michael Faraday, Lord Kelvin, Benjamin Franklin etc.
On three occasions, he received the Prix Robert Harvey from the
University of Geneva. His paper 'The first experimental air-cushion
machine' - which the author discovered had been invented as far
back as 1866 by Professor Marc Thury of Geneva - was jointly
published by the Newcomen Society and the Institution of Mechanical
Engineers.
As well as gaining first prize in an international competition
organised by the Italian National Standards Association (UNI) in
1971 for his monograph on standardization, he received from the
British Standards Society in 1987 the Fred Butcher Memorial Award
for his paper 'The quality factor in company standardization'.
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