What is David Gordon Wilson?
[[File:David Gordon Wilson (cropped).jpg|thumb|200px|Wilson in August 2005]] '''David Gordon Wilson''' (11 February 1928 – 2 May 2019) was a [[British people|British]] [[engineer]]. He served as a professor of engineering at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (MIT) in the [[United States]]. He is known for, along with Chester Kyle, starting the modern [[recumbent bicycle]] movement in the US. Wilson also invented [[carbon tax]] in 1973.<ref>{{Cite news|last1=Berdik|first1=Chris|title=The unsung inventor of the carbon tax|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2014/08/09/the-unsung-inventor-carbon-tax/f1xFyWmaXf2XzW3nVxrNJK/story.html|access-date=12 May 2019|work=[[The Boston Globe]]|date=10 August 2014}}</ref> He co-founded Wilson TurboPower, a company focused on the development of [[Turbine|microturbines]], in 2001. He was born in [[Warwickshire]]. Wilson died on 2 May 2019 in [[Winchester, Massachusetts]]. He was 91.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/obituaries/2019/05/07/david-gordon-wilson-mit-professor-and-father-modern-day-recumbent-bicycles-dies/mJMiTTVyZEk67JykP8sq6I/story.html|title=David Gordon Wilson, MIT professor and father of modern recumbent bicycles, dies at 91|author=Marquard, Bryan|date=7 May 2019|work=The Boston Globe|access-date=12 May 2019}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} {{Commons category}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Wilson, David Gordon}} [[Category:1928 births]] [[Category:2019 deaths]] [[Category:Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty]] [[Category:American mechanical engineers]] [[Category:American inventors]] [[Category:British mechanical engineers]] [[Category:English inventors]] [[Category:Naturalized citizens of the United States]] [[Category:People from Warwickshire]] {{Bio-stub}}