• The British Rayon Research Association was a research institute formed in 1946 by the British Rayon Federation and others. It was funded by the Department...
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  • rayon (HWM rayon) in the 1950s. Research in the UK was centred on the government-funded British Rayon Research Association. High-tenacity rayon is another...
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  • APEXC (category Early British computers)
    1950s. His work on the APE(X)C series was sponsored by the British Rayon Research Association. Although the naming conventions are slightly unclear, it...
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    British Rayon Research Association to form the Cotton, Silk, and Man-Made Fibres Research Association in 1961. Douglas Hill was director of research of...
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    John Wilson (industrial chemist) (category British chemists)
    (6 September 1890 – 8 September 1976) was Director of the British Rayon Research Association from 1948 to 1958. He was married to Edith Wilson (née Leech)...
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  • Leonard Albert Wiseman (category British chemists)
    the British Rayon Research Association, succeeding John Wilson, Deputy Director of the Cotton, Silk and Man-made Fibres Research Association when the BRRA...
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  • Andrew Donald Booth (category Use British English from April 2018)
    the All Purpose Electronic Computer, first installed at the British Rayon Research Association. Booth founded Birkbeck's department of numerical automation...
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  • formed British Rayon Research Association. A number of staff followed him, including LRG Treloar. In 1957, Malaya achieved independence from British Rule...
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  • Arthur S. Lodge (category British expatriates in the United States)
    from Oxford University. In 1949, he took a position at the British Rayon Research Association, where his supervisor was Karl Weissenberg, inventor of the...
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    George Porter (category Presidents of the British Science Association)
    he was a strong advocate. He was Assistant Director of the British Rayon Research Association from 1953 to 1954, where he studied the phototendering of...
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  • from 1961, and the Shirley Institute was merged with the British Rayon Research Association. The Board also engaged in a major attempt to reorganise the...
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    Hollerith Electronic Computer (category Early British computers)
    develop such a machine. Booth had previously worked for the British Rayon Research Association (BRRA) before moving to Birkbeck College in 1945. The BRRA...
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  • L. R. G. Treloar (category Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
    Research Establishment during World War II. He moved to the British Rayon Research Association when it was set up in 1948. He was a colleague of John Wilson...
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  • xanthate. The first commercial viscose rayon was produced by the UK company Courtaulds in 1905. The name "rayon" was adopted in 1924, with "viscose" being...
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  • Courtaulds, along with its domestic rival, British Celanese, both benefitted from tariff protection extended to the rayon industry by the Finance Act of 1925...
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    Lyocell (category Use British English from September 2015)
    development of Tencel was motivated by environmental concerns; researchers sought to manufacture rayon by means less harmful than the viscose method. The Lyocell...
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    rayon manufacturing plants (Bemberg and the North American Rayon Corporation) in Elizabethton along the banks of the Watauga River, producing rayon material...
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    Rubber Producers Research Association or British Rayon Research Association. Later, limited schemes to raise levies under the Act for research or marketing...
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    carbon disulfide in the environment is rayon factories. Most global carbon disulfide emissions come from rayon production, as of 2008. Other sources include...
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  • largest rayon fiber manufacturer. Founded in 1928, its research division developed such things as Tyrex (for the tire cord market), improved rayon and nylon...
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  • Michael P. Barnett (category British computer scientists)
    in Valence Theory. Barnett's attendance was enabled by the British Rayon Research Association, which supported his post-graduate work. At the Royal Radar...
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    Robin Bullough (category Use British English from November 2012)
    He then obtained a job as a Mathematical Physicist at the British Rayon Research Association in Manchester between 1959 and 1960 before obtaining a post...
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  • 1958 New Year Honours (category Use British English from March 2016)
    Trade Associations. Emily May Williams, Principal, Whitelands Training College, Putney. John Wilson, MC, Director of Research, British Rayon Research Association...
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  • Kathleen Booth (category 20th-century British engineers)
    Booth was a Research Scientist at British Rubber Producers' Research Association and for ten years from 1952 to 1962 she was Research Fellow and Lecturer...
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    Rosalind Franklin (category Use British English from February 2018)
    enthusiasm, she took up a research position under the British Coal Utilisation Research Association (BCURA) in 1942. The research on coal helped Franklin...
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    poly-viscose (PV), a blend of the artificial materials polyester and viscose (rayon), typically in a 65% polyester to 35% viscose ratio. PV is promoted as washable...
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    as materials for fire-resistant cellulosic textiles, such as cotton or rayon. Specifically, organic polymers can work as a flame-retardant due to the...
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  • Institute of Wood Science (category British research associations)
    signify the qualifications. Alice Holt Research Station Furniture Industry Research Association List of forest research institutes Forestry Commission Timber...
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  • John Rex Whinfield (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
    done earlier work on viscose rayon in 1892. In 1924 he was employed as a research chemist by the Calico Printers' Association based in Manchester. During...
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    era of manufactured fibers began with the development of rayon in France in the 1890s. Rayon is derived from a natural cellulose and cannot be considered...
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