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    Ferranti or Ferranti International PLC was a UK electrical engineering and equipment firm that operated for over a century from 1885 until it went bankrupt...
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  • The Ferranti Mark 1, also known as the Manchester Electronic Computer in its sales literature, and thus sometimes called the Manchester Ferranti, was produced...
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  • Ferranti is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: Basil de Ferranti (1930–1988), British businessman and Conservative Party politician...
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    The Ferranti Market Research Terminal (MRT) was, arguably, the world’s first application-specific handheld computer. It was designed specifically for the...
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  • Ferranti's Argus computers were a line of industrial control computers offered from the 1960s into the 1980s. Originally designed for a military role,...
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    built by Ferranti, Ltd that pioneered design features to improve usability for both engineers and programmers. It was originally named the Ferranti Package...
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    In electrical engineering, the Ferranti effect is the increase in voltage occurring at the receiving end of a very long (> 200 km) AC electric power transmission...
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    Ferranti-Packard Ltd. was the Canadian division of Ferranti's global manufacturing empire, formed by the 1958 merger of Ferranti Electric and Packard Electric...
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  • currently play in the Scottish Championship and were founded in 1943 as Ferranti Thistle, a works team. The club was admitted to the Scottish Football League...
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    Sebastian Pietro Innocenzo Adhemar Ziani de Ferranti (9 April 1864 – 13 January 1930) was a British electrical engineer and inventor who pioneered high-voltage...
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  • early commercial computer from the mid-1950s built by Ferranti. It was the successor to the Ferranti Mark 1, adding a floating point unit for improved performance...
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  • Staten Island Advance. Retrieved March 4, 2019. Ferranti 2009, p. 38. Ferranti 2009, p. 31. Ferranti 2009, p. 45. Burnstein, Scott (8 June 2016). "Muhammad...
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  • Marie Ferranti, real name Marie-Dominique Mariotti (French pronunciation: [maʁi fɛʁɑ̃ti]; born 1962, in Lento, Haute-Corse), is a French writer. She chose...
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    created in a joint development effort among the University of Manchester, Ferranti and Plessey. Two other Atlas machines were built: one for BP and the University...
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  • francs) as well as a company already co-owned by it and Thomson-CSF called Ferranti Thomson Sonar Systems (with about 400 million francs in sales). A third...
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    Gertrude Ruth de Ferranti-Kirkwood (née Ince) (15 April 1869 – 16 November 1959) was a Welsh activist who campaigned for affordable and accessible electricity...
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  • Gina Ferranti is an American actress and producer best known for her role as Cheryl Yale in the 2007 Charles Messina play Merging. Ferranti is an Italian-American...
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    The Ferranti Blue Fox was a British multi-role airborne radar designed and built for the Royal Navy by Ferranti Defence Systems in the late 1970s. It...
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    Conway Berners-Lee (category Ferranti)
    computer scientist who worked as a member of the team that developed the Ferranti Mark 1, the world's first commercial stored program electronic computer...
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    Redento D. Ferranti (March 4, 1923 – July 29, 2008) was born in Sulmona, Italy, and was a pioneer in the United States in the field of care for chronic...
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    became the prototype for the Ferranti Mark 1, the world's first commercially available general-purpose computer. Built by Ferranti, it was delivered to the...
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  • David de Ferranti, who served with the World Bank and various international foundations, including the Rockefeller Foundation. De Ferranti worked at...
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  • Basil Reginald Vincent Ziani de Ferranti (2 July 1930 – 24 September 1988) was a British businessman and a Conservative Party politician. He was educated...
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    Mary Lee Woods (category Ferranti)
    in the Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester Mark 1, Ferranti Mark 1 and Mark 1 Star computers. She was the mother of Sir Tim Berners-Lee...
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  • consumption. The first commercially available stored-program computer, the Ferranti Mark I, contained 4050 valves and had a power consumption of 25 kilowatts...
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    crime documentary directed by Shawn Rech, written by Brandon Kimber, Seth Ferranti, and Scott Burnstein, and produced by Transition Studios. The documentary...
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  • Vincent Ziani de Ferranti, CBE MC (16 February 1893 – 20 May 1980) was the second son of Dr Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti and Gertrude de Ferranti. As chairman...
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  • computers, but it very quickly also became a prototype on which the design of Ferranti's commercial version could be based. Development ceased at the end of 1949...
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    Ferranti Ferranti Argus Ferranti Mark 1, or Manchester Electronic Computer Ferranti Mercury Ferranti Orion Ferranti Pegasus Ferranti Perseus Ferranti...
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  • Ferrante Ferranti (born 1960) is a French photographer and architect. Born in Algeria to parents of Sardinian and Sicilian origin, he trained as an architect...
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