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unusual facts about Rotary


Paul H. Wendler

Wendler was a trustee and vice president of the Frank N. Andersen Foundation, the Saginaw Valley State University Foundation, a member of two crime commissions, the Saginaw Rotary Club, and the Boy Scouts of America.


Augustus Applegath

Inventions included methods of silk printing, a new method of printing banknotes and the printing machines on which The Times Newspaper was printed in the mid nineteenth century - the 'Four-Feeder' printed 5000 copies of the paper per hour, and from 1848 the rotary eight-feeder printed 8000 copies per hour.

Boaz Zippor

He has supported several projects in Thailand, including Camillian Hospital, Rotary Club Bangkok South, Baan Unrak, Baan Prakart, Newsmakers Clutter Sale, and Bangkok Opera Education Fund, most of which are projects in the field of education for underprivileged children.

Bourne High School

Bourne High School is located about 1 mile west of the famous Bourne Bridge and "Cape Cod" topiary at the Bourne Bridge rotary that welcomes people crossing the Cape Cod Canal.

Charles R. Fenwick

Throughout his life, Fenwick was a member of the American Bar Association, the Freemasons, the Shriners, the Elks Club, the Moose Lodge, the American Legion, the Rotary Club and the Farm Bureau.

Cierva C.12

In this configuration, the C.12 (now dubbed the Hydrogiro) flew from Southampton Water in April 1930, becoming the first rotary-wing aircraft to take off from water.

Compressed air foam system

By the mid-1980s, research by the United States Bureau of Land Management in co-operation with Mark Cummins, led to modern design features of rotary air compressors, centrifugal pumps, and direct-injection foam-proportioning systems (Fornell, 1991; IFSTA, 1966).

Dan Stoenescu

Among many honors and distinctions he was awarded the Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship, Ford Foundation scholarship, First Phi Theta Kappa All-California Academic Team, Presbyterian Church USA Samuel Roberson award, and distinctions from California governor Gray Davis, assembly member Wilma Chan, and senator Don Perata.

Dynamo

Rotary converters were still used for the West Side IRT subway in Manhattan into the late 1960s, and possibly some years later.

FN Patrol Bolt Rifle

It features a specially designed FN/Hogue stock with a full-length aluminum bedding block, featuring a cold rotary forged medium heavy barrel with recessed crown and a four groove, right hand, 1 in 12 twist rate.

Guy Hocquenghem

Open letter to those who moved from Mao collars to Rotary wheels, Marseilles, Agone (1986) was republished in 2003 with a foreword by Serge Halimi ISBN 2-7489-0005-7

Interactive communication

The automobile dashboard, the iconic Fender Stratocaster electrical guitar, and popular telephones from the Western Electric Model 302 rotary dial to the Apple iPhone multi-touch screen are examples of effective control panels.

International Christian University

ICU houses one of the Rotary Centers for International Studies in peace and conflict resolution, partnering with Rotary International.

Issoudun

The site uses 12 rotary ALLISS antennas fed by 12 transmitters of 500 kW each to transmit shortwave broadcasts by Radio France International (RFI), along with other broadcast services.

James W. Davidson

Leaving in 1914, he spent CAN$250,000 of his own money to establish branches of Rotary International in Australia, New Zealand, Turkey, Greece, Egypt, Jerusalem, Burma, Siam (Thailand), Java, and in several of the Malay states including Seremban, Kuala Lumpur, Malacca, Penang, Ipoh, Klang and Singapore.

John T. Parsons

These developments were done in collaboration with his employee Frank L. Stulen, who Parsons hired when he was head of the Rotary Wing Branch of the Propeller Lab at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, in April 1946.

Kawasaki A7 Avenger

While other manufactures had utilised the advantages of rotary disc valve induction on small single-cylinder machines, only Kawasaki and Bridgestone produced twin-cylinder machines.

Kellett Autogiro Corporation

The KD-1/G-1 was the first practical rotary-wing aircraft used by the United States Army.

Ladd Arboretum

Gardens include the Meadow Garden, Prairie Restoration Area, Cherry Tree Walk, Nut Tree, Rotary International Friendship Garden (with All-America Rose Selections), Women's Terrace, gazebo, and bird sanctuary.

Lawrence Anthony

The Rotary International Paul Harris Fellowship for outstanding contribution to the ideals of Rotary.

Leonardo da Vinci International Art Award

The prize giving event has been hosted by other European Rotary Clubs in cities such as Tours, Vienna, Athens, Madrid, Würzburg, Brussels and Amsterdam.

Massachusetts Route 111

Route 111 begins in Concord at the rotary junction of Route 2, Route 2A and Route 119, next to MCI - Concord.

Matteo Brancaleoni

President for two years of the Rotaract Club "Alba Langhe e Roero" (2009–2010) is a member of the Rotary Club of Alba.

Max Immelmann

Both the E.3/15 machine earlier shared with Boelcke, and his own E.13/15 aircraft, both used to secure Immelmann's first five victories between them each had a seven-cylinder 80 horsepower Oberursel U.0 rotary engine for their power.

NSU Spider

Invented by Felix Wankel, the Wankel engine differed from a piston engine because the quasi-oval design of the combustion chamber, containing a rotor that ascribed within the chamber an Epitrochoid shaped trajectory, enabling the combustion pressure to be converted directly into a rotary motion.

Oboronprom

Russian Helicopters, Oboronprom’s helicopter manufacturing group is the leading Russian designer and manufacturer of rotary-wing aircraft equipment.

Paul Harris

Paul P. Harris (1868–1947), lawyer who founded the Rotary Club in 1905

Ray Boughen

He is also a former charter member of the Wakamow Rotary Club and a current member of the Moose Jaw Rotary Club, and was an interim president and CEO of the Regina Airport Authority.

Rotary Air Force RAF 2000

The aircraft kits were manufactured by Rotary Air Force Inc of Canada until April 2007 when the marketing and manufacturing rights were transferred to Rotary Air Force Ltd located in Upington, South Africa.

Rotary Racer

The name Rotary Racer came from the team's first sponsors -Rotary International of Chipping Sodbury.

Rotary River Ride

The Rotary River Ride is a non-competitive bicycle ride held next to the Yarra River in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Rotary Wind Quintet

The Rotary Quintet was composed in September 1997 on a commission from Henrik Rolf Hanstein, President of the Rotary Club of Cologne-Römerturm, on the occasion of the club's 25th anniversary.

Sandy D'Alemberte

After military service as a lieutenant in the United States Navy Reserve, D'Alemberte studied on a Rotary Foundation fellowship at the London School of Economics.

Service club

Many of these service clubs were started early in the 20th century, such as Apex Clubs of Australia, Altrusa International, JCI, Sertoma, Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions, Exchange, Optimists, Soroptimists, KIN Canada, Zonta and Alpha Phi Omega, .

ShakthiDass

He later did innumerable wrappers, storyboard illustration, and sketches for various magazines and novels in Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, English and Oriya including Bommarillu, Chandamama, Balamitra, Nandanam, Bujjayi, Balabharati, Kumkuma, Dinakaran, Vasuki, Rishi Petam, Rotary News,Vijaya Publications, Oriya News, Chinnari, Kannada Chokkalingam.

Snowhill

Other members of the design and construction team include for facade engineers Yuanda, The Weedon Partnership Architects, structural engineers Caunton and Curtins, building services sub-contractors Rotary, and building services consultants Arup and Cundall.

SPA London

The charity continues its aims of helping other charities including UK based charities such as NSPCC, Breast Cancer, and RNLI as well as forging links with charities in India such as the Rotary Eye Hospital in Navsari, Gujarat.

Stator

The stator is the stationary part of a rotary system, found in electric generators, electric motors, sirens, or biological rotors.

Sussex Regional High School

Some popular activities are yearbook, spirit club, international relations club, minor officials, green club, chess club, dance committee, safe grad, jazz band, student council, Key Club, Rotary, and future education.

Tasmania Police

The Ford Ranger and Toyota Hilux are currently used as base vehicles for divisional vans, fitted with a custom Vawdrey-brand rotary-moulded, "custody cell" for transport of prisoners.

Tattoo machine

• Rotary tattoo machine: A rotary tattoo machine, built in 1978 by Manfred Kohrs of Germany.

Tiltrotator

With its integral quick coupler and rotary swivel, Rototilts also use extra hydraulic functions to power and manipulate other worktools such as a breaker, grapple or an auger, which can be attached to the quickcoupler on the tiltrotator, for simplified attachment mounting, dramatically increasing the machine's utilization on the jobsite.

Volkswagen K70

Designed by Claus Luthe, the K70 was originally developed by NSU as a smaller brother to the Ro 80, distinguished by its conventional piston engine rather than the Ro80's Wankel rotary engine.

Wheelchair trainer

A quadrature rotary encoder or hall effect sensor can be implemented to provide sufficient speed and direction information to enable virtual navigation interface with video games in a manner similar to using a joystick or gaming console.

William Francis Petrovic

He continued to be very active in civic organizations including the Bremerton Chamber of Commerce, Rotary, the Community Theater, the Navy League, Retired Officer's Association and was President of the community United Way Campaign in 1978.

Xavier Briggs

He later received a BS in engineering from Stanford University, worked with the innovative planning firm of Moore Iacofano Goltsman in Berkeley, CA, and won a Rotary Scholarship to study education and community development in Brazil, living in Salvador, Bahia.

Zuidlaren

It was named like that by R.C. Zuidlaren-Anloo, the local Rotary club, because the payment for the statue was donated by a Rotary club from Achim, Germany.


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