Arnold Tustin

Arnold Tustin (16 July 1899 – 9 January 1994) was a British engineer and Professor of Engineering at the University of Birmingham and at Imperial College London who made important contributions to the development of control engineering and its application to electrical machines.

Biography Tustin started working in 1914 at the age of 16 as an apprentice to the C. A. Parsons and Company, of Newcastle upon Tyne. He entered Armstrong College, later part of Newcastle University, in 1916, served in the Royal Engineers in World War I, and eventually received his master's degree in science in 1922.

In 1922 he joined Metropolitan-Vickers (Metro-Vick) as a graduate trainee. In the early 1930s he worked for Metro-Vick in Russia for two years, advising and selling equipment to the government companies. Here, he wrote his first book on the design of electric motors, which was also translated into Russian. He also developed new methods for gyroscopic stabilisation and further applied servo-mechanisms to tanks and naval guns.

Publications Tustin was the author of several books and many published papers on electrical machines, a selection. 1952. Automatic and manual control: Papers contributed to the Conferences at Cranfield, 1951, Volume 1951, Deel 1 Academic Press 1952. Direct current machines for control systems 1953, The Mechanism of Economic Systems, Cambridge, MA. : Harvard Univ. Press., (2e ed. 1957) 1956. The Next Ten Years of Electrical Engineering 1957. Automatic Control. With Ernest Nagel

About Tustin 1992, "Pioneers of Control: an interview with Arnold Tustin", Chris Bissell in: IEE Review, June 1992, pp. 223–226 1994, "Arnold Tustin 1899-1994", Chris Bissell in: Int. J. Control, Vol 60, No 5, Nov 1994, pp. 649 – 652