William Henry Preece

Sir William Henry Preece
Sir William Henry Preece
Born	15 February 1834 Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales
Died	6 November 1913(1913-11-06) (aged 79)
Education	King's College London
Occupation	Engineer
Engineering career
Discipline	Civil, Electrical,
Institutions	British Association for the Advancement of Science (president, Section G), Institution of Civil Engineers (president), Institution of Electrical Engineers (president), Society of Telegraph Engineers (president)

Sir William Henry Preece KCB FRS (15 February 1834 – 6 November 1913) was a Welsh electrical engineer and inventor. Preece relied on experiments and physical reasoning in his life's work. Upon his retirement from the Post Office in 1899, Preece was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the 1899 Birthday Honours.^[1] That same year, he was elected an International Member of the American Philosophical Society.^[2]