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6 unusual facts about Ferranti


Ethel Léontine Gabain

Ethel received two commissions from Ferranti Hollinwood – Working on the Cathode Ray Tubes and A Giro Compass; one from Richard Haworth & Co.

Ferranti-Packard 6000

Over the next year they sold one to the Defence Research Establishment Atlantic, in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia and the other to the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX).

HARRIAC had much in common with the Ferranti Argus series of process control computers, which date from 1958.

John Makepeace Bennett

In 1952 he married Rosalind Mary Elkington (who was also working at Ferranti).

Rod Coutts

Rod Coutts met the other Teklogix founders while working at Ferranti International's Canadian division, Ferranti-Packard Electronics.

Supercomputer

The Atlas was a joint venture between Ferranti and the Manchester University and was designed to operate at processing speeds approaching one microsecond per instruction, about one million instructions per second.


Air Ministry Experimental Station

AMES Type 86, 10 GHz mobile CW target illuminator radar for Bristol Bloodhound 2 - a.k.a. Blue Anchor, Firelight - Ferranti

Crewe Toll

A major aerospace facility is situated in the area, the Selex ES facility (formerly the avionics division of Ferranti, then GEC-Marconi, then BAE Systems, then SELEX Sensors and Airborne Systems, then SELEX Galileo) has been in this location since the 1940s.

Euroradar CAPTOR

An agreement was reached after the British Defence Secretary Tom King assured his West German counterpart Gerhard Stoltenberg that the British government would underwrite the project and allow GEC to acquire Ferranti Defence Systems from its troubled parent.

Ferranti Computer Systems

It owes its name to its original founder Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti, an electrical engineer, born in Liverpool in 1864, who, at the age of 13, invented the arc light for street lighting and, when 16, built and patented an electrical generator (the Ferranti dynamo).

Jason Cerbone

In 2007, Cerbone starred with Gina Ferranti and Ernest Mingione in Charles Messina's play Merging, which won Best Play in The Players' Theater's Shortened Attention Span Theater Festival in Greenwich Village.

Peter G. Gyarmati

After their earlier work with Ferranti, then the successor ICL, in Manchester University he joined for research to IBM from 1972 until 1981, working in Poughkeepsie, Yorktown, New York, and the Delft University, the Netherlands.

Robin Heath

His early career was in electronics as a research and development engineer at the Ferranti Research laboratories in Wythenshawe from where he moved to become lecturer then senior lecturer in Mathematics and Engineering for 15 years.

Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti

In 1932, the London Power Company commemorated Sebastian de Ferranti by naming a new 1,315 GRT coastal collier SS Ferranti.

Simulation for Automatic Machinery

In 1953 NDRE was offered a digital Ferranti computer via the Norwegian Intelligence Service and the agency thus terminated its own computer development and instead focused on software.

Zetex

Zetex Semiconductors, a transistor and diode manufacturer, once part of Ferranti.


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