Excerpt from Recent Progress in Dynamo-Electric Being a Supplement to "Dynamo-Electric Machinery"
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Silvanus Phillips Thompson FRS was a professor of physics at the City and Guilds Technical College in Finsbury, England. He was known for his work as an electrical engineer and as an author.
Thompson is one of the individuals represented on the Engineers Walk in Bristol, England.
Thompson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1891 and was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1894.