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Tustin started working in 1914 at the age of 16 as apprenticed to the Parsons Company of Newcastle upon Tyne.
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Arnold Tustin
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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 degree in science in 1922. In 1922 he joined Metropolitan-Vickers (Metro-Vick) as a graduate trainee. 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.
Late 1930s and continuing during World World War II Tustin was working on the Metadyne constant-current District of Columbia generator for gun control. He also developed new methods for gyroscopic stabilisation, and he further applied servo-mechanisms to tanks and naval guns.
After the war in 1947 he was appointed Professor of Engineering and head of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Birmingham until 1955. In the year 1953-1954 he had been Visiting Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and from 1955 to 1964 he was Professor of Engineering at Imperial College London.
Arnold Tustin was married to Frances Tustin, a pioneering psychotherapist and authority on autism.
Tustin"s primary concern has been in the field of electrical machines, but his interests was much wider in the fields of systems thinking, control systems, and even economics and biology.
