GEORGE J. COATES is a research scientist in the design and development of power units and propulsion systems of numerous types, including gas turbines, steam turbines, pulse detonation, rocket engines, internal combustion engines and more. He is the inventor of the CSRV engine, the Coates Spherical Rotary Valve internal combustion engine, which is now believed to be the most advanced thermal efficient internal combustion engine in the world. George J. Coates is the founder, Chairman of the Board of Directors, and President and Chief Executive Officer of Coates International, Ltd. USA. His son, Gregory G. Coates, is Director and President, Technology Division. George J. Coates served two apprenticeships in Europe while attending the College of Technology in London and as an associate member of the Society of Automotive Engineers (S.A.E.) he received The City of Guilds of London for electrical and mechanical engineering. He is a former management director of SCR Motor Engineers of Europe. He worked as an engineer for Rolls Royce and Mercedes Benz, BLMC, Austin, and D. Napier. He holds approximately 300 patents worldwide on innovations and technologies, including the Coates Spherical Rotary Valve system and turbine engine, among others. He invented coolant disc brakes and a hydraulic suspension. He has delivered lectures and presentations at: TWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England and Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA. He is a member of the Society of Mechanical Engineers and S.A.E. He received awards in 1995 for achievement in designs in automotive engineering from the S.A.E. He also received awards in 2001 for outstanding achievements in mechanical engineering from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Mr. Coates has extensive experience in international corporate business and has developed many long time associates and contacts in the business and scientific communities around the world.
City and Guilds of London Institute. The College of Technology: Equivalence BE. BS. ME. EE. (Mechanical Engineering) (Electrical Engineering) (Physical Science) (Motor Engineering Certificate) – All With Honors. The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Awarded for Outstanding Achievement in Mechanical Engineering, October 17, 2001. Awarded Associate Member S.A.E, The Engineering Society for Advancing Mobility Land Sea Air and Space International. (Licensed Inspector) The Presidential Business Commission. Chairman and Executive Committee Appointed George J.Coates to the Presidential Business Commission of the United States of America. Activities and Societies of The Job: Engineering Instructor ANCO The Industrial Training Authority. Amalgamated Engineering Union, London SE15, 5EL UK, B, L, M, C, R, R, Mercedes Benz. SCR Motor Engineers. Coates Engineering Ltd. Europe Design Engineering. Coates International, ltd. USA R&D. He is an accomplished musician. He plays piano and many other musical instruments as well as composes music.
The name Coates is of ancient origin and was written in the earliest records as De Cote (meaning from the coast). It was a Norman name and the letter “a” was added to help in the correct pronunciation in English. The “A” occurs in the spelling as early as 1331, when in the fourth year of Edward III, William De Coates was Lord of Coles DeVille in Leicestershire, England, and again in 1347 John De Coates, with an “a” held lands in Lincoln, although the name was generally written Cotes until the seventeenth century.
There are landed proprietors bearing the name Coates in England, Wales and Ireland. The first Coates family arrived in Ireland in the early 1700s. Shortly after arriving in Ireland, the family bought land in Kildare around Donadea, Kilcock and Ovidstown from the Aylmer family, where they built their family Estate at Knockanally. They also had a house in Brighton, England.
Matthew Coates Esq. built the original Knockanally House, which was to stand for almost 200 years. This was built in the late 1700’s and he was the first of four generations of the Coates family to own Knockanally. He was known to locals as “Miner” Coates, a reference to mines he owned in Africa. His son William Coates Esq. built the present Knockanally House in 1843. He was the local magistrate in the area of Enfield. The estate remained the Ancestral home of the Coates family until 1942 when it was sold to the Irish Land Commission and re-destributed to Irish families. The House still remains today and is the Club House of the Knockanally Golf Course. Nowadays, the family is spread out over five counties, Dublin, Wicklow, Westmeath, Meath and Kildare.
The Coates family moved to Dublin in the 1885 and opened a piano factory. Joseph Jennings Coates from Eccleshill in Yorkshire, England, was a composer, pianist and piano tuner. His wife Jessie Coates was a professor of Music from Exeter in Devonshire, England. Since then the family have always had a very musical background. His son, Ernest and his wife Emily were also pianists and music teachers. Most of their children including Harold, Richard and Frederick became musicians, able to play, repair and tune many instruments. In time both Richards and Fredericks children followed in their footsteps, forming several bands that played all over England and Ireland.
President, Technology Division, Coates International, Ltd.
Gregory is a Research Scientist, Inventor and Mechanical Engineer He is also the youngest son of George J. Coates. Family Photos Certif... Read More