13 Facts About Kenyon Taylor

Maurice Kenyon Taylor was an English electrical engineer and inventor, responsible for many diverse technological developments and inventions, producing over 70 patents during his career.

Kenyon Taylor spent most of his career at Ferranti, first in Manchester, then Edinburgh and finally moving to Canada where he led development at their Toronto-area operations, Ferranti-Packard.

Kenyon Taylor was educated at Oundle Public school and passed the entrance exam to King's College, Cambridge, where he studied for a year before moving to Manchester University.

Kenyon Taylor came to the attention of Albert Hall who was the personal assistant of Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti of the Ferranti company Manchester and joined them as a lab boy in March 1931.

Hall and Kenyon Taylor produced and patented a system for improving the treble tone or sound of a radio with a novel adjustable filtering system.

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Kenyon Taylor was involved in the manufacture of cathode ray tubes and here he had several patents concerning electronic improvements and methods to apply the screen coatings.

In 1945 Kenyon Taylor was requested by Sir John Toothill to set up an electronics research laboratory in Edinburgh which attracted the likes of D T N Williamson, who, although better known for his amplifier fame was responsible with Kenyon Taylor and others for many aircraft navigation developments.

Kenyon Taylor spent around five years here and worked on, and patented, an early form of Xerography before leaving to start a research laboratory in Canada.

Laboratory in Scotland was successful and Kenyon Taylor was invited by Toothill to set up an electronics laboratory at Ferranti Canada, which later merged with Packard, becoming Ferranti-Packard.

Kenyon Taylor took some members from the UK with him but employed many local talented individuals, who would eventually produce DATAR headed up by British Scientist Dr Arthur Porter.

Times ahead were tough, but Kenyon Taylor still managed patents relating to letter sorting machines and an air bearing drum for use with the world's first computerised airline reservation system, ReserVec for Air Canada.

Vardalas explains in some detail that in the 1960s Kenyon Taylor had an idea that superconductors would be useful for power companies in reducing power losses associated with electricity generation and employed Dr David Atherton to commence research on this.

Vardalas goes on to suggest that Display Technology saved the day when Kenyon Taylor came up with the idea of displaying information by means of a fixed array of dots, by way of a Flip-disc-display these were used in the stock exchanges and airports around the world.