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3 unusual facts about Frederick W. Lanchester


Harmonic damper

Both Frederick Henry Royce and Frederick W. Lanchester have strong claims to the invention of the vibration damper, with the latest research showing Rolls-Royce using a crankshaft slipper (friction) vibration damper on their 1906 30HP models, however Royce had not submitted it for patent.

Knight engine

Daimler contracted Dr. Frederick Lanchester as their consultant for the purpose and a major re-design and refinement of Knight's design took place in great secrecy.

Lanchester Bay

It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1960 for Frederick W. Lanchester, an aeronautical engineer who laid the foundations of modern airfoil theory.


Augustus Henry Seward

Augustus Seward, Frederick W. Seward and others in the house were attacked by Powell as Powell attempted to gain access to William H. Seward's bedroom, as they intervened in Powell's attack on Seward, and again as Powell made his escape.

Bell Oionus I

The Oionus I had its origins in March 1909 with the dissolution of the AEA, when Alexander Graham Bell hired both Frederick W. "Casey" Baldwin as an engineer and J.A.D. McCurdy as assistant engineer to build the last of Bell's designs.

Bohnstedt

Frederick W. Bohnstedt (1825-1883), German American Mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey from 1867 to 1869

David Gross

He is the former director and current holder of the Frederick W. Gluck Chair in Theoretical Physics at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics of the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Denis C. Twitchett

While he was at Princeton, Twitchett worked closely with fellow Sinologist Frederick W. Mote (who had a related wartime experience).

Design Team One

In 1985, board members Alex Stolley, Bill Lawarre and President, Dan Bittman purchased the company from Northlich Stolley LaWarre and moved its offices from the agency's building to the top floor of the city's historic Dixie Terminal Building designed by Frederick W. Garber.

Follett's Modern American Usage

This came from a group of writers and teachers of English: Carlos Baker, Frederick W. Dupee, Dudley Fitts, James D. Hart, Phyllis McGinley and Lionel Trilling.

Frederic Cameron Church, Jr.

In February 1882, Fred C. Church (Sr) joined about twenty other prominent young men of Lowell to form a gentleman's club called the Highland Club, later named the "Yorick Club", with, other members included architect, Frederick W. Stickney and Percy Parker.

Frederick Hamilton

Frederick W. Hamilton (1860–1940), US businessman and president of Tufts University

Frederick Henninger

Frederick W. Henninger (1873-1919), an American football player and coach

Frederick Humphries

Frederick Ward Humphries II (born 1965/66), American FBI agent involved in the Petraeus scandal.

Frederick Marks

Frederick W. Marks (born 1940), American historian and Catholic apologist

Frederick Rowe

Frederick W. Rowe (1863–1946),U.S. Representative from New York

Frederick Seward

Frederick W. Seward (1830–1915), American Assistant Secretary of State, son of William Henry Seward, Sr. and Frances Adeline Seward and elder brother of General William Henry Seward, Jr.

Frederick W. Adams

He was of the opinion that the superior tones of the Amati and Stradivarius instruments were due to their having been made of old and seasoned wood.

Frederick W. Barrett

Barrett was married to Honorable Isobel Caroline, Lord Kensington's daughter.

Frederick W. Green

Fred Green (1871–1936), Frederick Warren Green, American politician, Governor of Michigan

Freddie Green (1911–1987), Frederick William Green, American swing jazz guitarist

Frederick W. Griffith

The company manufactured packing and sealing products; and was taken over by Colt Industries in 1975.

Frederick W. Haultain

studied at the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich, England.

Frederick W. Henninger

He worked as an engineer for the Detroit United Railway and later had a successful career as a manufacturer in Detroit, Michigan.

After graduating from Michigan, Henninger worked for the Detroit United Railway for six years from 1897 to 1903.

Frederick W. Penney

Frederick Penney is the principal stockholder of a nationally renowned race engine building company called Comptech, of which engines have won among other races, the Indianapolis 500.

Frederick W. Rowe

He served as director of the Dime Savings Bank of Brooklyn.

Frederick W. Stickney

Frederick Stickney opened his office at 131 Devonshire Street in Boston, alongside at least a dozen other architectural firms on the same street including Henry Van Brunt and Arthur Rotch.

Frederick W. Turner

He has published a revised and annotated edition of Geronimo's 1906 autobiography.

When the Boys Came Back: Baseball and 1946 (1996) focused on the season when Americans such as Joe DiMaggio returned from World War II to the baseball fields; Kirkus said it "could be livelier" but was still of interest.

Frederick W. V. Blees

He was responsible for the construction of several of the town's commercial buildings and the town's first sewage system; founded the local horseless carriage factory, the first theater, and the First National Bank of Macon; and financed the paving of the town's streets on a 50-50 basis with the city.

Haultain, Saskatoon

Haultain School was opened in 1924, and named in honour of Sir Frederick Haultain, former Commissioner of Education and later first Premier of the Northwest Territories.

K. C. Hsiao

Volume 1 translated into English by Frederick W. Mote as A History of Chinese Political Thought, Volume 1: From the Beginning to the Sixth Century AD (1979).

Lander County, Nevada

Named for Frederick W. Lander; chief engineer of a federal wagon route through the area in 1857.

Lionel Pries

Beginning in the late 1920s and continuing to 1942, Pries travelled to Mexico every summer and regularly interacted with leaders in Mexican art including William Spratling, Frederick W. Davis, Rene d'Harnoncourt, Juan O'Gorman, and others.

Memphis Hound Dogs

Former Memphis Showboats owner William Dunavant, Paul Tudor Jones, Fred Smith and Elvis Presley Enterprises were the members of the potential ownership group.

Michel Balinski

In 1965 he won the Frederick W. Lanchester Prize of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) for his survey paper on integer programming.

Nobles Emigrant Trail

Nobles' efforts persuaded Congress to appropriate $300,000 for an expedition along the route, led by Frederick W. Lander, who prepared a favorable report in February 1861.

Revolution in Military Affairs

Kagan, Donald and Frederick W. Kagan, While America Sleeps: Self-Delusion, Military Weakness and the Threat to Peace Today, New York, St. Martin's Griffin, 2000 ISBN 0-312-28374-1

Robert B. Tucker

His interviews with Dr. Jonas Salk, developer of the polio vaccine, Frederick W. Smith, founder and chairman of Federal Express, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Ilya Prigogine and many other trail-blazers, artists, futurists, and scientists were the inspiration for his interest in innovation.

Ron Ponder

After some discussion, the pilot suggested that Ponder should meet Charles Brandon and Frederick W. Smith, the Founder and CEO.

World Broadcasting System

Frederick W. Ziv, Co. acquired World Broadcasting System, Inc., for $1.5 million on August 4, 1948, but later, sold it to a Philadelphia firm, which in turn sold it to Commercial Recording Corporation, a Dallas-based corporation founded in 1955 by Tom Merriman.


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