C. A. Parsons and Company was a British engineering firm which was once one of the largest employers on Tyneside. The company became Reyrolle Parsons...
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compound steam turbine, and as the eponym of C. A. Parsons and Company. He worked as an engineer on dynamo and turbine design, and power generation, with...
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convinced. Parsons' son became a director in the company and was replaced during the First World War by his daughter Rachel Parsons. Parsons turbines powered...
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1961, Parsons founded the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation. The foundation became entirely independent from the company in 1974. Also in 1974, Parsons opened...
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Motor Boats and engine and propeller sets. Not to be confused with C. A. Parsons and Company who made marine steam turbines. Harry Parsons was at one time...
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Parsons started what is now the Parsons Corporation in Los Angeles. In 2002, Parsons Corporation separated Parsons E&C from its other business units. Worley...
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Steam turbine (redirect from Parsons turbine)
total output from turbo-generators constructed by his firm C. A. Parsons and Company and by their licensees, for land purposes alone, had exceeded thirty...
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Latina Nuclear Power Plant (category Building and structure articles needing translation from Italian Wikipedia)
(Backed by AEI, John Thompson, C. A. Parsons and Company, Head Wrightson and A. Reyrolle & Company) started in 1958, as a key component of Italy's nascent...
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Grubb Parsons (legally 'Sir Howard Grubb, Parsons and Co. Ltd.') was a historic manufacturer of telescopes, active in the 19th and 20th centuries. They...
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Calder Hall nuclear power station (category Buildings and structures in Cumbria)
electricity. The reactors were supplied by UKAEA, the turbines by C. A. Parsons and Company, and the civil engineering contractor was Taylor Woodrow Construction...
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Monroe Parsons (c. 1896 – 20 December 1974, aged 78) was an American engineer and businessperson. He was the founder of the Parsons Corporation. Parsons was...
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The Parsons Paper Company was an American pulp and paper company specializing in cotton-based fine writing papers, based in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Founded...
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Parsons (born Marvel Whiteside Parsons; October 2, 1914 – June 17, 1952) was an American rocket engineer, chemist, and Thelemite occultist. Parsons was...
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Ralph Parsons (born November 27, 1950) is an American entrepreneur, billionaire, and philanthropist. In 1997, he founded the GoDaddy group of companies, including...
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The company merged with C. A. Parsons and Company to form Reyrolle Parsons in 1968. In 1977 Reyrolle Parsons merged with Clarke Chapman to form Northern...
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Parsons School of Design, known colloquially as Parsons, is a private art and design college located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York...
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saw a way to combine his and Parsons's talents. Parsons produced and engineered songs written and composed by the two, and the first Alan Parsons Project...
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Drax Power Station (category Buildings and structures in North Yorkshire)
and Sulzer Brothers manufactured the boiler feed pumps. In both phases the boilers were made by Babcock Power Ltd and the generators by C. A. Parsons...
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to Richard C. Parsons. Richard Chappel Parsons (October 10, 1826 – January 9, 1899) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a U.S. Representative...
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Sellafield (category Buildings and structures in Cumbria)
whole site for process and other purposes. The reactors were supplied by UKAEA, the turbines by C. A. Parsons and Company, and the civil engineering contractor...
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Hunterston A had two Magnox reactors capable of generating 180 MWe each. The reactors were supplied by GEC and the turbines by C.A. Parsons & Company. The main...
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be built by the North British Locomotive Company and the turbine would be supplied by C. A. Parsons and Company. According to Sampson, the plan was to use...
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"Grammy nominations – Alan Parsons". National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 16 August 2019. The Alan Parsons Project – Pyramid. CD Remaster...
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Gas turbine (category Articles containing pro and con lists)
tanks by C. A. Parsons and Company, was installed and trialed in a British Conqueror tank. The Stridsvagn 103 was developed in the 1950s and was the first...
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Society in Britain on 23 June 1919. Rachel Mary Parsons was born in 1885, to Sir Charles Algernon Parsons and his wife Katharine, the daughter of William...
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Oldbury nuclear power station (category Buildings and structures in South Gloucestershire District)
undertaken by a consortium known as The Nuclear Power Group ('TNPG'). The reactors were supplied by TNPG and the turbines by AEI and C. A. Parsons & Co. The...
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June 13 (section Holidays and observances)
1919) 1854 – Charles Algernon Parsons, English engineer, founded C. A. Parsons and Company (d. 1931) 1863 – Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, English fashion designer...
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place on Earth and sleeping in a tent at -53 °C. After writing for Week Ending, Parsons and Naylor were offered their own show Parsons and Naylor's Pull-Out...
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History of Newcastle upon Tyne (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
invented the steam turbine and, in 1889, founded his own company C. A. Parsons and Company in Heaton, Newcastle to make steam turbines. Shortly after...
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Rockets declined to match the offer and Parsons signed with the Mavericks on July 15. On December 17, 2014, Parsons scored a season-high 32 points against the...
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