Her "George Taylor Nautical Academy" was highly regarded by the East India Company, Trinity House, and the Admiralty.

[4] Her 1834 patented "Mariner's Calculator" was dismissed by the Admiralty, and was later reassessed as "genius but impractical in the 'clumsy' hands of its potential users.

At nine years old, she received a scholarship to attend Phoebe Wright's Royal School for female embroiderers in Ampthill, Bedfordshire, which had an entry age of fourteen.

[8] When her father died, Taylor invested her inheritance into a career in the male-dominated field of nautical education.

Later, she published a second edition of "Principles of Navigation Simplified", however she faced financial difficulties following its release and her invention's failure.

Luni-Solar and Horary Tables became a great success, due to Taylor's discovery proving that the earth is spheroidal rather than spherical.

[12] In 1833 the first edition of Luni-Solar and Horary Tables was reviewed in The United Service Journal, The Atlas, and The Morning Advertiser.

Taylor published a second book, An Epitome of Navigation, and Nautical Astronomy, with the Improved Lunar Tables, in 1842.

A year later, Prince Albert hosted the Great Exhibition of 1851, as which Taylor presented her "bronze binnacle, with compass, designed from the water lily.

"[14] For three years following the Great Exhibition of 1851, Taylor continued to develop more binnacles, by performing experiments consisting of swinging ships back and forth across the Thames and recording the compass actions.

In 1856, Taylor invented another nautical instrument consisting of an attachment for sextants and quadrants, called sea artificial horizon.

In 1862, Taylor presented a new sextant and mariner's compass at the 1862 London International Exhibition of Industry and Art.