Background
DUDDELL, W. was born in 1872 in London.
DUDDELL, W. was born in 1872 in London.
Studied at private school. College Stanislass, Cannes.
Served apprenticeship with Davey, Paxman & Company, Colchester, 1890-1893. Attended courses in engineering and physics, and carried out research work at Central Technical College, London, 1893-1900. Obtained a Whitworth Exhibition 1896, and Whitworth Scholarship 1897.
Read, in conjunction with Doctor East. West. Marchant, a paper on Experiments on Alternate Current Arcs by Aid of Oscillo graphs before the Institution of Electrical, Engineers, 1898.
Read a paper on Rapid Variations of Current tlirough the Direct Current Arc, 1900. Also read papers on Resistance and East.M.F."s of the Electric Arc, before Royal Society, 1901.
And on OscillograxMis, British Association meeting, 1897. In conjunction with Doctor Marchant, contributed to The Electrician an article entitled Experiments on Periodic Variations Occurring in the Exciting Current of an Inductor Alternator, 1901.
Received a gold medal for oscillographs at Paris Exhibition of 1900.
And at Saint Louis, 1904. Was honorary secretary to delegates to International Electrical Congress at Saint Louis, United States of America, 1904, and to the International Conference on Electrical Units and Standards, 1908. Consulting Engineer; Past President of the Rontgen Society.
Vice-President Institution of Electrical Engineers and Honourable Treasurer of the Physical Society.
Fellow of the Royal Society.