David Gordon Wilson

David Gordon Wilson (2005)

David Gordon Wilson (born February 11, 1928 in Sutton Coldfield , Warwickshire , England - † May 2, 2019 in Winchester , Massachusetts , United States) was a British engineer and professor of engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

biography

In 1955, Wilson came to the USA for a research fellowship. In 1957 he returned to Great Britain to work on gas turbines in the industry. In 1958 he went to Nigeria for two years and taught engineering there. He then worked for a US company in London and was transferred to the USA in 1961. In 1966 he went to MIT and taught engineering design .

His longstanding interest was in muscle-powered vehicles, and he wrote Bicycling Science with others . In this book various aspects of cycling are treated scientifically. Together with Chester Kyle, he drove the renaissance of the recumbent bike . In 1980 Wilson developed an improved recumbent bike with Richard Forrestall, the Avatar 2000. Tim Gartside achieved a speed of 51.9 mph (83.5 km / h) over 200 m with the fully faired Avatar Bluebell in 1982 with a flying start.

Wilson is considered to be the inventor of the CO ₂ tax (carbon tax, 1973).

In 2001, Wilson and others founded Wilson TurboPower to market the small turbines and heat exchangers developed at MIT.

Wilson lived in Winchester, Massachusetts with his wife, Ellen. He died at the age of 91.

Publications

David Gordon Wilson, Frank Rowland Whitt: Bicycling Science , 3rd paperback. Edition, The MIT Press , Cambridge, MA April 2004, ISBN 978-0-262-73154-6 (accessed April 15, 2010).
David Gordon Wilson, Theodosios Korakianitis: The Design of High-Efficiency Turbomachinery and Gas Turbines , 2nd paperback. Edition, Prentice Hall, January 1998, ISBN 978-0-13-312000-4 (accessed June 21, 2010).
Douglas Beck, David Gordon Wilson: Gas-Turbine Regenerators , hardcover. Edition, Springer, January 1996, ISBN 978-0-412-98331-3 (accessed September 5, 2010).

Web links

Commons : David Gordon Wilson - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Wilson Turbogenerator at NREL ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b David Gordon Wilson, MIT professor and father of modern recumbent bicycles, dies at 91. In: bostonglobe.com. May 7, 2019, accessed May 8, 2019 .
^ Wilson, David Gordon 1928. In: encyclopedia.com. Retrieved May 8, 2019 .
↑ WITH MechE - David Gordon Wilson . Retrieved September 5, 2010.
↑ Wilson, Forrestall, Henden: Evolution of Recumbent Bicycles and the design of the Avatar Bluebell . In: SAE International Congress and Exposition Technical Paper 840021 . 1984. Retrieved January 22, 2017.
^ The unsung inventor of the carbon tax . In: The Boston Globe , August 10, 2014. Retrieved August 11, 2014.
↑ Wilson Turbo Power, Inc. (copy @ Wayback Machine) . Archived from the original on January 1, 2007. Retrieved September 18, 2014.

personal data
SURNAME	Wilson, David Gordon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	English engineer and professor of engineering
DATE OF BIRTH	February 11, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sutton Coldfield , England
DATE OF DEATH	2nd May 2019
Place of death	Winchester , Massachusetts , United States

[boston-1] David Gordon Wilson, MIT professor and father of modern recumbent bicycles, dies at 91. In: bostonglobe.com. May 7, 2019, accessed May 8, 2019 .

[encyclop-1928-2] Wilson, David Gordon 1928. In: encyclopedia.com. Retrieved May 8, 2019 .

[3] WITH MechE - David Gordon Wilson . Retrieved September 5, 2010.

[4] Wilson, Forrestall, Henden: Evolution of Recumbent Bicycles and the design of the Avatar Bluebell . In: SAE International Congress and Exposition Technical Paper 840021 . 1984. Retrieved January 22, 2017.

[5] The unsung inventor of the carbon tax . In: The Boston Globe , August 10, 2014. Retrieved August 11, 2014.

[6] Wilson Turbo Power, Inc. (copy @ Wayback Machine) . Archived from the original on January 1, 2007. Retrieved September 18, 2014.