About Octave Sneeden
Lived 1893 – 1976 (aged 82–83). Octave Sneeden was an engineer.
Dr Jean Baptiste Octave Sneeden FRSE MIME MITE (1893–1973) was a 20th century Scottish engineer and author. As an author he is sometimes known as J. B. O. Sneeden.
Life He was born on the island of Mauritius on 24 June 1893. He was the son of John Alexander Elvin Sneeden (b.1868) and his wife Maria Ravinia Georges (b.1872), and paternal grandson of John Townsend Sneeden of Annapolis in Nova Scotia and Maria Louise Georgina Sharrock of Port Louis, Mauritius.
He studied Engineering Science at Glasgow University graduating BSc in 1917.
He died on 2 June 1976 at his home, 39 Kingshouse Avenue in Glasgow.
Family
He married Miss Gillard in Essex.
Publications
Elements of Steam Power Engineering (1932) Introduction to Internal Combustion Engineering (1933) Applied Heat for Engineers (1947)
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Scottish engineer and author
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