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| [[Image:M1927v143-p604.jpg |thumb| 1927. Extensions to the [[Deptford Generating Station|Deptford Power Station]].]] | | #redirect [[Gerald William Partridge]] |
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| George William Partridge (1864-1940), M. Inst. C. E., of the [[London Electric Supply Corporation]]
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| Credited with inventing the oil-immersed circuit breaker, in 1892 <ref>[http://manweb-remembered.co.uk/elecsupplychronology1977.pdf] Electricity Supply in Great Britain - A Chronology-From the beginnings of the industry to 31 December 1976 by The Electricity Council, second edition, 1977, p.9</ref>
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| '''1940 Obituary <ref>[[The Engineer 1940/05/10]]</ref>
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| IT is with deep regret that we have to record
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| the death on Friday, May 3rd, at Woldingham,
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| Surrey, following a short illness, of Gerald William
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| Partridge, who was associated with the [[London Electric Supply Corporation|London Electric Supply Corporation, Ltd.]] for over half a
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| century, rising from assistant engineer to engineer-in-chief, and managing director of the Corporation.
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| A pioneer of the electric lighting industry, his
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| death leaves a gap in the ranks of those who did so
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| much to develop London's electric supply systems.
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| He was born in June, 1864, and received his early
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| education at St. Marks School Windsor.
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| In 1882, he went to Germany for two years to the Technical
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| College at Essen, where be began his scientific training.
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| On his return to England in 1884, he
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| entered the [[Hammond Electrical Engineering College]] at Red Lion Square, where he gained
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| practical experience in electrical engineering work.
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| After leaving college he joined the [[Anglo-American Brush Electric Light Corporation|Anglo-American Brush Engineering Company]], and spent three years going through the various shops and departments.
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| For a short time he was a pupil in the office of [[Woodhouse and Rawson|Messrs. Woodhouse and Rawson]].
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| In 1888, he was appointed assistant engineer of the
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| London Electric Supply Corporation, which had
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| then been formed to take over the Grosvenor
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| Gallery installation, and to carry out Dr. Ferranti's
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| larger scheme for high-voltage distribution from
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| the new station at Deptford.
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| In 1892 Mr. Partridge was appointed chief electrician of the
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| Corporation, and two years later he became
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| second engineer with charge of the distribution
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| station, the installation department, testing and
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| mains.
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| In 1899 he succeeded [[Patrick Walter D'Alton|Mr. P. W. d'Alton]],
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| who was appointed chief engineer when Dr. Ferranti
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| left the company, as engineer-in-chief of the
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| Corporation. Later he became managing director
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| of the company, and he continued to hold that
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| position until his death.
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| At the Commemoration Meeting of the Institution
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| of Electrical Engineers which took place on
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| February 23rd, 1922, to commemorate the first
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| ordinary meeting of the Institution (then the
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| Society of Telegraph Engineers) on February 28th,
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| 1872, Mr. Partridge read a paper in which he
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| referred to his early experiences with the Anglo-American
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| Brush Company, and his work under Dr. Ferranti in the founding of the London Electric
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| Supply Corporation in 1887, and the difficulties
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| experienced with the transformers and high tension
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| mains. He it was who overcame the trouble
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| experienced in charging the 10,000 volt mains, by
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| the introduction of charging gear. The mains,
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| we may recall, consisted of two concentric brazed
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| copper tubes of equal cross sectional area separated
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| by paper insulation impregnated with ozokerite
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| wax, which were made in 20ft. lengths. The
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| cables were enclosed in a 2lin. diameter thin
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| iron tube with a brazed seam which was filled
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| with wax. Following his paper, Mr. Partridge
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| presented to the Institution a 10,000 volt coil,
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| transformer, cables and other apparatus as a
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| record of that pioneer installation.
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| Mr. Partridge kept in close touch with the
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| work of the scientific institutions and was a member
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| of the Institution of Civil Engineers and the
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| Institution of Electrical Engineers. He served on
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| the Council of the Institution of Electrical Engineers
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| for some years, and was elected Vice-President in
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| 1917. In later times he devoted his time to the
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| administration and financial sides of the electric
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| supply industry, and as well as his position with
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| the London Electric Supply Corporation was also
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| director of many electricity undertakings.
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| == See Also ==
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| <what-links-here/>
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| == Sources of Information ==
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| <references/>
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| {{DEFAULTSORT: Partridge, G}}
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| [[Category: Biography]]
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| [[Category: Births 1860-1869]]
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| [[Category: Deaths 1940-1949]]
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| [[Category: Institution of Civil Engineers]]
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| [[Category: Institution of Electrical Engineers]]
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