Lancelot "Capability" Brown (born c. 1715–16, baptised 30 August 1716 – 6 February 1783) was an English gardener and landscape architect, who remains...
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Charles Eugene Lancelot Brown (17 June 1863 – 2 May 1924) was a Swiss businessman and engineer who co-founded Brown, Boveri & Cie (BBC), which later became...
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Lancelot du Lac (French for Lancelot of the Lake), also written as Launcelot and other variants, is a character in some versions of Arthurian legend where...
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companies. It was founded in Baden bei Zürich, in 1891 by Charles Eugene Lancelot Brown and Walter Boveri who worked at the Maschinenfabrik Oerlikon. In 1970...
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Launcelot Brown (13 January 1748 – 28 February 1802) was an English politician. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Totnes from 1780...
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Charles Brown and Company at 91 Rione Amedeo, Naples, Italy. He married a Swiss woman and they had six children, including Charles Eugene Lancelot Brown, who...
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ABB (redirect from ASEA-Brown Boveri)
electrical light and generators. Brown, Boveri & Cie (BBC) was formed in 1891 in Zurich, Switzerland by Charles Eugene Lancelot Brown and Walter Boveri as a Swiss...
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Charles Brown and his wife Eugénie Pfau, who came from Winterthur. His older brother was the machine designer Charles Eugene Lancelot Brown. Like his...
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Dolivo-Dobrovolsky and Charles Eugene Lancelot Brown in Germany on one side, and Jonas Wenström in Sweden on the other, though Brown favoured the two-phase system...
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Transatlantic telegraph cable Charles Eugene Lancelot Brown Co-founder of Brown, Boveri & Cie William C. Brown Crossed-field amplifier, microwave power transmission...
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practical three-phase form by Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky and Charles Eugene Lancelot Brown. Charles Steinmetz and Oliver Heaviside contributed to the theoretical...
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Alnwick Castle (category Gardens by Capability Brown)
small park straddling the River Aln which was landscaped by Lancelot Brown ("Capability Brown") and Thomas Call in the 18th century; it is known locally...
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is set in 3,000 acres (1,200 ha) of parkland, landscaped by Lancelot "Capability" Brown, with views over the gardens to the Chiltern Hills. The house...
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(see Mariage 1999, p. 30). Hazlehurst 1996, p. 164. Gady 2008, p. 128. Lancelot Brown. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. 2007. Retrieved 12 March 2012. {{cite...
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Wrest Park (category Gardens by Capability Brown)
modified for his granddaughter Jemima, 2nd Marchioness Grey by Lancelot "Capability" Brown in a more informal landscape style. The park is divided by a...
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physicist Charles Eugene Lancelot Brown (1863–1924), Swiss engineer and founder of railway companies Charles Armitage Brown (1787–1842), British businessman...
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name to Proctor-Beauchamp. He completed the building work and employed Lancelot Brown to advise on the landscaping. In 1785 new entrance lodges were built...
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Sandbeck Park (category Gardens by Capability Brown)
Earls of Scarbrough since the 18th century. The garden was designed by Lancelot Brown and is also Grade II* listed. The name Sandbeck – alternatively spelled...
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Burghley House (category Gardens by Capability Brown)
developed from those originally designed by Lancelot Brown, surrounded by a park of C16 origins for which Brown provided extensive plans between 1754 and...
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leader Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1807–1862), English Bible translator Lancelot "Capability" Brown (1716–1783), English landscape architect Lancelot Browne...
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entered a golden age, under the direction of William Kent and Lancelot "Capability" Brown. They refined the English landscape garden style with the design...
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warriors associated with Arthur in the early Welsh tales. Some, such as Lancelot, Perceval and Tristan, feature in the roles of a protagonist or eponymous...
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Lady of the Lake (section Lancelot's guardian)
providing Arthur with the sword Excalibur, eliminating Merlin, raising Lancelot after the death of his father, and helping to take the dying Arthur to...
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Dolivo-Dobrovolsky and Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft and Charles Eugene Lancelot Brown in Europe, starting in 1889. The International Electro-Technical Exhibition...
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side of the Atlantic, Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky and Charles Eugene Lancelot Brown, built the first long-distance (175 kilometers (109 miles)) high-voltage...
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motor design was also worked on by the Swiss engineer Charles Eugene Lancelot Brown, and other three-phase AC systems were developed by German technician...
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go to Lord North. Pitt had an additional wing built to a design by Lancelot Brown, and the subsequent owner demolished everything but this wing in 1805...
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Croome Court (category Gardens by Capability Brown)
mansion and park were designed by Lancelot "Capability" Brown for the 6th Earl of Coventry, and they were Brown's first landscape design and first major...
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and Maschinenfabrik Oerlikon, Doliwo-Dobrowolski and Charles Eugene Lancelot Brown developed larger models, namely a 20-hp squirrel cage and a 100-hp wound...
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motors were designed by Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky and Charles Eugene Lancelot Brown. Widespread use of such motors were delayed many years by development...
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