author
Ernest George Phillips
b. 1880
An early 20th-century engineering writer, he is best known for a practical guide to pneumatic conveying that grew out of real industrial experience. His work speaks directly to engineers, managers, and students looking for clear, usable explanations.
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Pneumatic conveying
by Ernest George Phillips
About the author
Ernest George Phillips was a British engineering author born in 1880. Surviving reference sources identify him as Chief Electrical Engineer at Boots from 1908 to 1919, which suggests a career rooted in large-scale industrial practice as well as technical writing.
He is known for Pneumatic Conveying, first published in London by Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons in 1921 as part of the Pitman's Technical Primer Series. The book was written as a concise treatment of the principles, methods, and applications of pneumatic conveyance, with a practical audience in mind.
That background helps explain the tone of his writing: straightforward, applied, and focused on how machinery works in the real world. Only a small amount of biographical information appears to be readily available online, but the record that survives shows a specialist writer whose work was closely tied to the needs of modern industry.