• Arthur Joseph Hungerford Pollen (13 September 1866 – 28 January 1937) was an English journalist, businessman, and commentator on naval affairs who devised...
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  • Hungerford Pollen, English couturier and author Arthur Pollen, writer on naval affairs Daniel Pollen, ninth Premier of New Zealand Francis Pollen, English...
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    early forms of rangekeepers. Arthur Pollen and Frederic Charles Dreyer independently developed the first such systems. Pollen began working on the problem...
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  • John Horton Conway, English-born mathematician (d. 2020) January 28 – Arthur Pollen (born 1866), English inventor. January 29 – Aleen Cust (born 1868),...
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  • was not widely known. With war looming the firm began to work with Arthur Pollen on his 'Aim Correction' system for improving the accuracy of naval gunnery...
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    incorporated into a fire-control system for naval gunnery being developed by Arthur Pollen, resulting in an electrically driven, mechanical analogue computer,...
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    Admiral) Frederic Charles Dreyer, and the Argo Clock, developed by Arthur Pollen, and received developmental input from both men. The Admiralty Fire...
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    1913, the Admiralty bought five sets of fire-control equipment from Arthur Pollen for comparative trials with the equipment designed by Commander Frederic...
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  • for John Pollen. The family descended from Edward Pollen (died 1636), a London merchant originally from Lincolnshire. His son, John Pollen I, grandson...
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    produced of increasing complexity as development proceeded. By 1912, Arthur Pollen had developed an electrically driven mechanical analog computer for...
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    businessman, Arthur Hungerford Pollen. The church architect, Francis Pollen, was a great-grandson. During the 1870s and 1880s, the Pollens rented Newbuildings...
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    Pollination (redirect from Pollenation)
    Pollination is the transfer of pollen from an anther of a plant to the stigma of a plant, later enabling fertilisation and the production of seeds. Pollinating...
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    Candidate Votes % ±% Conservative Edmund Byrne 6,876 60.3 +5.1 Liberal Arthur Pollen 4,523 39.7 –5.1 Majority 2,353 20.6 +10.2 Turnout 11,399 64.2 –8.1 Registered...
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  • Frederick Blackman (died 1947), English plant physiologist September 13 – Arthur Pollen (died 1937), English inventor September 21 – H. G. Wells (died 1946)...
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  • Primaudaye Pollen was born in London on 12 January 1928, the second son and second of six children of Arthur and Daphne Pollen (née Baring). Arthur Pollen was...
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    around the time of World War I. Arthur Pollen and Frederic Charles Dreyer independently developed the first such systems. Pollen began working on the problem...
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    which would be fed to the turrets for laying. In 1912, British engineer Arthur Pollen developed the first electrically powered mechanical analogue computer...
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    Frederick Pollen (1847 - 11 February 1876) was a British District Collector at Bulandshahr, India. He had been a student at Dublin University, and passed...
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  • John Hungerford Pollen (1820–1902) was an English architect and writer on crafts and furniture. Pollen was educated at Eton College and Christ Church,...
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    response came in the form of shellfire from small and then larger guns. Arthur Pollen wrote that Private letters speak of salvoes falling short and over in...
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    John Jellicoe. At the end of 1907 he assisted in the trials of Arthur Hungerford Pollen's Argo rangefinder mounting and plotter on the cruiser HMS Ariadne...
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  • first electrically powered mechanical analogue computer, invented by Arthur Pollen (1866–1937). 1918: The flip-flop circuit, which became the basis of...
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    around the time of World War I. Arthur Pollen and Frederic Charles Dreyer independently developed the first such systems. Pollen began working on the problem...
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    married Arthur Joseph Lawrence Pollen, eldest son of Arthur Pollen and grandson of Sir Joseph Lawrence, in 1920. They were the parents of Patrick Pollen. Hon...
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    Parsons works Henry Payne works Lilian Josephine Pocock John Piper Patrick Pollen Sarah Purser Ethel Rhind Arnold Wathen Robinson works Arild Rosenkrantz...
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    seedling, thought to be from Granny Smith, with pollen from either Jonathan or Rokewood. Maud and Arthur Williams owned the farm in Donnybrook, Western...
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  • hot metal typesetting). Between 1900 and 1902, with Linotype managers Arthur Pollen and William Henry Lock, Barr also designed pantographs operating on...
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    wounding several more. The ship was thereafter used to examine one of Arthur Pollen's Argo Clocks, a fire control system that incorporated the first mechanical...
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  • married Arthur Joseph Lawrence Pollen, eldest son of Arthur Pollen and grandson of Sir Joseph Lawrence, in 1920. They were the parents of Patrick Pollen. Hon...
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  • interests of the nation". During the war the magazine also employed Arthur Pollen as writer on naval issues. After the end of the war, the journal continued...
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