Briggs, Philip Harold
- Nationality:
- British
Philip Harold Briggs was an engineer, inventor and entrepreneur known to have been active in the 1950s and 1960s. Briggs was a co-founder of the Dukes and Briggs Engineering Company. Alongside Kenneth James Butler he invented and patented a device for measuring yarn. Briggs completed his thesis in Engineering in 1964.
Briggs designed a Network Analyser, a form of analogue computer with valves, which was used by the electricity industry to plan and analyse the electricity network. The Dukes and Briggs company manufactured the analyser and sold it to Britain's Central Electricity Generating Board. Most area boards also had them, as well as electricity industries in Spain, Australia and Saudi Arabia.