Sir Harry Ralph Ricardo (26 January 1885 – 18 May 1974) was an English engineer who was one of the foremost engine designers and researchers in the early...
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Ricardo PLC is a British firm that provides engineering, environmental and strategic consultancy services. Founded by Sir Harry Ricardo, it based at Shoreham-by-Sea...
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Horace Ricardo) Halsey Ricardo (1854–1928), English architect and designer Sir Harry Ricardo (1885–1974), British motor engineer who established Ricardo Consulting...
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are: High volumetric efficiency due to very large port openings. Sir Harry Ricardo also demonstrated better mechanical and thermal efficiency. The size...
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to build such an engine, none succeeded.[citation needed] In 1927, Harry Ricardo published a study on the concept of the sleeve valve engine. In it,...
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tapped with a hammer. It was further investigated and described by Harry Ricardo during experiments carried out between 1916 and 1919 to discover the...
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considered[by whom?] one of the "big three" English car engineers—alongside Harry Ricardo and Henry Royce. Lanchester was born in St John's Wood, London to Henry...
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highly satisfactory.". In 1921, British engineer Harry Ricardo patents racing fuels RD1 and RD2 (for Ricardo Discol) that contained methanol and ethanol,...
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important than fuel economy. These are also called Ricardo chambers, named after the inventor, Sir Harry Ricardo. This chamber is located at the cylinder head...
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Engineering Co Ltd between 1921 and 1928. Named after engine designer Sir Harry Ricardo it featured an innovative four valve head design and was capable of...
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Paxman (engines) (redirect from Paxman Ricardo)
indirect injection cylinder heads, designed by Sir Harry Ricardo) carried the name Paxman Ricardo. Paxman was founded by James Noah Paxman, Henry and...
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Stern) designed by Harry Ricardo, displacing 19 litres and developing 150 bhp (110 kW). According to J. F. C. Fuller, the Ricardo engine was of a "somewhat...
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commercially available passenger car with a diesel engine, developed with Harry Ricardo. The Traction Avant is a car that pioneered the mass production of three...
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for them by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway at Derby. Sir Harry Ricardo was also involved. By the time it emerged in 1950, nationalisation had...
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Stratified charge engine (section Ricardo)
speed / output was controlled solely by the quantity of fuel injected. Harry Ricardo first began working with the idea of a lean burn "stratified charge"...
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d'Eyncourt, Major-general (retired) Sir Ernest Swinton, engine designer Harry Ricardo, the gearbox and transmission expert Major Walter Gordon Wilson. Unsurprisingly...
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set up his own consultancy in London, alongside the engine designer Harry Ricardo. From 1926 he designed the de Havilland Gipsy air-cooled inline engines...
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lower grade of fuel. Harry Ricardo was prominent in developing combustion chambers for diesel engines, the best known being the Ricardo Comet. In a continuous...
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produced a saloon car in 1923 under the name of the Triumph Motor Company. Harry Ricardo produced an engine for their latest motorbike. By the mid-1920s Triumph...
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provide without assistance. The first VCR engine built and tested was by Harry Ricardo in the 1920s. This work led to him devising the octane rating system...
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House opened in 2021. The University of Brighton and Ricardo UK jointly opened the Sir Harry Ricardo Laboratories on 14 November 2006. The laboratories...
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flathead technology resulted from experimentation in the 1920s by Sir Harry Ricardo, who improved their efficiency after studying the gas-flow characteristics...
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No. 1) Charles Gilpin, MP No. 11 Henry Cavendish, scientist No. 13 Harry Ricardo, engine designer, born at the house No. 19 New College of the Humanities...
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has produced world-famous films, including the James Bond, Star Wars and Harry Potter series. The amalgamations and disappearances of the 1950s and 1960s...
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sufficiently steep gradient to avoid excessive internal temperatures, however, Harry Ricardo pointed, about the single Sleeve-valve, Burt-McCollum type, that as...
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antiknock additives. In the late 1910s, researchers such as A.H. Gibson, Harry Ricardo, Thomas Midgley Jr., and Thomas Boyd began to investigate abnormal combustion...
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Drive)SV, three speed Triumph gearbox Model R 500 1921-1926 Designed by Harry Ricardo. OHV with a 4 valve head Model P 500 1925–1926 made down to the price...
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powered by a 1,393 cc (1.4L) 4-cylinder side-valve engine designed by Harry Ricardo and fitted with a single updraught Zenith carburettor. The engine produced...
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engine of this sort of power known as the turbo-compound engine, but Sir Harry Ricardo, one of Britain's great engine designers, suggested that the most economical...
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commissioned Harry Ricardo to investigate problems of fuel and engines. His book was published in 1923 as “The Internal Combustion Engine”. Ricardo postulated...
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