Sir Charles Algernon Parsons OM KCB FRS (13 June 1854 – 11 February 1931) was an English engineer, best known for his invention of the compound steam turbine...
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Charles Parsons may refer to: Charles Algernon Parsons (1854–1931), English engineer known for his invention of the steam turbine Charles Parsons (philosopher)...
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its factory in Heaton in Newcastle upon Tyne. Charles Algernon Parsons' son Algernon George "Tommy" Parsons joined the company as a director, but when he...
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Steam turbine (redirect from Parsons turbine)
1884 by Charles Parsons, whose first model was connected to a dynamo that generated 7.5 kilowatts (10.1 hp) of electricity. The invention of Parsons' steam...
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Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company was a British engineering company based on the River Tyne at Wallsend, North East England. Charles Algernon Parsons...
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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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Tyne in North East England. The company was set up in 1889 by Charles Algernon Parsons. The company built a number of small coal-fired power stations...
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Oliver Heaviside, Ányos Jedlik, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Charles Algernon Parsons, Werner von Siemens, Joseph Swan, Reginald Fessenden, Nikola Tesla...
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surname of Parsons include the following. Charles Algernon Parsons (1854–1931), Irish engineer, inventor of the steam turbine Charles Parsons (philosopher)...
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Albans in 1918. In 1925 the company was purchased by Charles Algernon Parsons, renamed Grubb Parsons, and moved to Newcastle upon Tyne. In the 20th century...
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production with dynamo generators started only in 1883. Engineer Charles Algernon Parsons demonstrated a DC steam-powered turbo generator using a dynamo...
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apparently known for developing railways in South America. The Hon. Sir Charles Algernon Parsons (13 June 1854 – 11 February 1931), known for inventing the steam...
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was raised in his mother's hometown of Blyth, Northumberland. Charles Algernon Parsons, inventor of the steam turbine while living in Wylam, Northumberland...
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Newcastle and District Electric Lighting Company (DisCo) founded by Charles Algernon Parsons. A line was roughly drawn down the city's Grainger Street, with...
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largest application yet of the then-new technology, developed by Charles Algernon Parsons. During speed trials, these engines caused significant vibration...
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Newcastle. Reaction steam turbine invented by Anglo-Irish engineer Charles Algernon Parsons. 1885 The first commercially successful safety bicycle, called...
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the steam turbine, invented by Charles Algernon Parsons. He patented the first steam turbine on Tyneside in 1884. Parsons, born in Ireland in 1854, was...
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Trinity College Dublin and Oxford University. He was the brother of Charles Algernon Parsons, inventor of the steam turbine. He served as the eighteenth Chancellor...
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Van Riemsdijk, J. T. (1980) Pictorial History of Steam Power. Charles Algernon Parsons (1911), The Steam Turbine: The Rede Lecture 1911 (1st ed.), Cambridge:...
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1872) 1918 – Alexey Kaledin, Russian general (b. 1861) 1931 – Charles Algernon Parsons, English-Irish engineer, invented the steam turbine (b. 1854) 1938...
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architect 78: Ronald Firbank, novelist Upper Brook Street 1: Charles Algernon Parsons, Anglo-Irish engineer and inventor of the compound steam turbine...
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style following that of 'The Hon', for example The Honourable Sir Charles Algernon Parsons, OM, KCB, FRS. 'Sir', along with 'Miss' for women, is commonly...
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laid down, and the month after she was launched. The invention by Charles Algernon Parsons of the steam turbine in 1884 led to a significant increase in the...
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Cogswell's Feiseen: 50.9 km/h (31.6 mph) 1897, Charles Algernon Parsons' Turbinia: 62.9 km/h (39.1 mph) 1903, Charles R. Flint's Arrow: 72.5 km/h (45.06 mph)...
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of Manchester in 1897. Charles Algernon Parsons invented the steam turbine and, in 1889, founded his own company C. A. Parsons and Company in Heaton,...
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1894-5 by Thornycroft and Barnaby and by the Anglo-Irish engineer Charles Algernon Parsons (1854-1931), who constructed a stroboscopic apparatus to study...
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by James Wimshurst (1832–1903). 1884: Steam turbine invented by Charles Algernon Parsons (1854–1913). 1885: Compression ignition engine (a.k.a. the diesel...
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includes Turbinia, the 104 feet 9 inches (31.93 m) ship built by Charles Algernon Parsons to test the advantages of using the steam turbine to power ships...
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England Generating sites Organisations and personnel CA Parsons & Company Charles Algernon Parsons Charles Hesterman Merz Clarke Chapman John Theodore Merz L...
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Stevens (1990). Victorian Architecture. Newton Abbot, England: David & Charles. ISBN 978-0-715-39144-0. OCLC 823781473. Dixon, Hugh (2007). Cragside....
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