Frederick William Lanchester LLD, Hon FRAeS, FRS (23 October 1868 – 8 March 1946), was an English polymath and engineer who made important contributions...
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character actress Frederick W. Lanchester (1868–1946), engineer who devised Lanchester's laws and founded Lanchester Motor Company Lanchester's laws, mathematical...
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The Frederick W. Lanchester Prize is an Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences prize (U.S. $5,000 cash prize and medallion) given...
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Lifting-line theory (redirect from Lanchester-Prandtl wing theory)
the wing's geometry. The theory was expressed independently by Frederick W. Lanchester in 1907, and by Ludwig Prandtl in 1918–1919 after working with...
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The balance shaft was invented and patented by British engineer Frederick W. Lanchester in 1907. It is most commonly used in inline-four and V6 engines...
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The Lanchester 8 hp Phaeton is a brass era automobile designed by Frederick W. Lanchester, developed and built by the Lanchester Motor Company, produced...
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B. In 1915 and 1916 during World War I, M. Osipov: vii–viii and Frederick Lanchester independently devised a series of differential equations to demonstrate...
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on 5 January 1834, at Islington, the son of Frederick Lanchester and Mary Ann Smith. In 1850, Lanchester began his architectural career. Articled to William...
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Edith 'Biddy' Lanchester (28 July 1871 – 26 March 1966) was an English socialist, feminist and suffragette. She became well known in 1895 when her family...
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The Lanchester petrol-electric car is a prototype motor vehicle, designed in 1927 by Frederick W. Lanchester of the Lanchester Motor Company in his workshop...
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the Theory of NP-completeness. He and Johnson received the 1979 Frederick W. Lanchester Prize from the Operations Research Society of America for the book...
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and automobiles as starting points for their own innovations. Frederick W. Lanchester, of Birmingham, built a four-wheeled petrol-driven automobile,...
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(1816–1890), was an established architect, and his younger brother, Frederick W. Lanchester (1868–1946), was to become an engineer. He was articled to his...
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Prize. Frederick W. Lanchester Prize 2007, retrieved 2017-03-19. John von Neumann Theory Prize 2015, retrieved 2017-03-19. Avis, D.; Bondy, A.; Cook, W.; Reed...
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Academy of Achievement, presented by former U.S. president (1985). Frederick W. Lanchester Prize of the Operations Research Society of America for the Best...
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Department of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he was awarded the Frederick W. Lanchester Prize for pioneering work in introducing the use of Operations...
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(1998, with Roger J-B Wets) for which the authors received the Frederick W. Lanchester Prize from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management...
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Lanchester Bay (63°55′S 60°6′W / 63.917°S 60.100°W / -63.917; -60.100 (Lanchester Bay)) is a bay 7 nautical miles (13 km; 8.1 mi) wide lying east...
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have low phugoid damping.: 464 The term "phugoid" was coined by Frederick W. Lanchester, the British aerodynamicist who first characterized the phenomenon...
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company of his elder brother Frederick, George took over responsibility for the Lanchester Motor Company. Thereafter, while Frederick pursued his own glittering...
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are primarily limited to cross plane engines. Both Frederick Henry Royce and Frederick W. Lanchester have strong claims to the invention of the vibration...
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Force concentration (section Lanchester's laws)
other circumstances may be. During the First World War Frederick W. Lanchester formulated Lanchester's laws that calculated that the combat power of a military...
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Betz's law, as this result was also derived by British scientist Frederick W. Lanchester. This is a famous example of Stigler's law of eponymy. In December...
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the efforts of military planners during World War I (convoy theory and Lanchester's laws). Percy Bridgman brought operational research to bear on problems...
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The Traveling Salesman Problem: A Computational Study won the Frederick W. Lanchester Prize of INFORMS in 2007. He became a fellow of the Society for...
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Engineering) — ACM Fellow and INFORMS Fellow, and recipient of the Frederick W. Lanchester Prize (2013) Gerard Salton (Professor of Computer Science) — father...
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1963) – actress Denny Laine (born 1944) – Paul McCartney and Wings Frederick W. Lanchester (1868–1946) – maker of the first petrol-driven car in Britain Bunny...
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and his coauthor R. Tyrrell Rockafellar were awarded the 1997 Frederick W. Lanchester Prize by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences...
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limits the maximum efficiency of any turbine. British scientist Frederick W. Lanchester derived the same maximum in 1915. The leader of the Russian aerodynamic...
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27, 2011) was an American researcher and professor who won the Frederick W. Lanchester Prize in 1967 and was a Fulbright Lecturer in Germany. Beightler...
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