Nationality British Fields Optics Institution Cooke Optics | Name Harold Taylor Children Wilfred Taylor Died February 26, 1943 | |
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Known for Invention of Cooke Triplet Notable awards Duddell Medal and Prize, 1933 Books The Adjustment and Testing of Telescope Objectives | ||
Institutions Cooke and Sons of York | ||
Harold Dennis Taylor (1862 in Huddersfield – 26 February 1943) was a British optical designer and inventor, chiefly famous for the invention of the Cooke Triplet, although he was granted about 50 other patents.
He was born in 1862 in Huddersfield, attended St Peter's School, York, and began the study of architecture. Circa 1880, he abandoned this to work at Thomas Cooke and Sons of York, a company which produced the finest quality optical instruments, telescopes in particular.
As optical manager and chief designer for Thomas Cooke, he won fame for the design and patent in 1893 of the Cooke Triplet and was awarded the Duddell Medal and Prize in 1933.
He died in retirement in Coxwold, North Yorkshire. He had married Charlotte Fernandes Barff of Portugal and had one daughter and two sons. Their son Edward was also a published optical designer.