INVENTOR Dr John Taylor - who is currently on a scientific expedition to Antarctica - said he is very proud to receive the OBE.
Dr Taylor has filed almost 200 inventions leading to 396 patents listed in the European patent office, including an electric motor protector, automatic windshield wipers and cordless kettle controls.
He is a former chairman of Strix, the Manx electric kettle control company, which celebrated selling their one billionth kettle control in 2009.
Through Strix Dr Taylor, who is in his mid 70s, holds four Queen's Awards - one for invention and three for export.
He retired from the company in 1999.
He is also a keen flyer, yachtsman, experienced mountaineer and skier and has been on numerous expeditions, including two of geological survey in the Arctic.
Having long been a collector of antique clocks and timepieces, Dr Taylor has recently set up John C Taylor Masterworks, an Island based company that creates exclusive, high-value replicas of rare and important clocks.
He invented, designed and built the Chronophage which sits outside Corpus Christi's Taylor Library in Cambridge.
When asked about his numerous inventions Dr Taylor said: "Ideas are easy, it is turning them into a practical reality that is hard."
In terms of receiving the OBE he said: "I am very pleased and very proud to have been recognised in this way."
His friend, the 14th Astronomer Royal Sir Arnold Wolfendale FRS paid tribute to him.
He said: "Despite having been in university life for many years and having met many brilliant individuals, John C Taylor is unique in being not only a brilliant inventor but having great skills in so many other areas too.
"He is also a charming unaffected person. His many contributions to providing work for very many people, his stimulus to British Horology and his philanthropy make him a worthy recipient of an OBE. I am proud to be numbered amongst his many friends. I congratulate him wholeheartedly."
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