Robert Whitehead (3 January 1823 – 14 November 1905) was an English engineer who was most famous for developing the first effective self-propelled naval...
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torpedo, invented by Robert Whitehead in 1866 Whitehead Torpedo Works, a former torpedo company founded by Robert Whitehead in 1875 Whitehead SpA, one of the...
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knight of the Order of Franz Joseph, was the son of Robert Whitehead, the eponym of the Whitehead torpedo. Her mother, an amateur architect and pianist...
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1873. Whitehead then took it over and at the beginning of 1875 transformed it into a private company called 'Torpedo-Fabrik von Robert Whitehead'. Giovanni...
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Robert Whitehead (March 3, 1916 – June 15, 2002) was a Canadian theatre producer. His first production was Medea, starring Judith Anderson and John Gielgud...
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Robert Whitehead (1823–1905) was an English engineer and entrepreneur who built the first modern torpedo. Robert Whitehead may also refer to: Robert Whitehead...
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also received the award for the Best TV Couple in Isidingo along with Robert Whitehead (in the role as Barker Haines) at the Crystal Awards. She was nominated...
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Whitehead torpedo was the first self-propelled or "locomotive" torpedo ever developed. It was perfected in 1866 by British engineer Robert Whitehead from...
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Robert E. Whitehead (born 1950) is the former US Chargé d'Affaires in Gabon, as well as Ambassador to the Togolese Republic (2012–2015) and Chief of Mission...
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Richard Whitehead (disambiguation), multiple people Robert Whitehead (disambiguation), multiple people Ron Whitehead, American poet Rowland Whitehead (disambiguation)...
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Robert Whitehead (September 21, 1897 – June 8, 1960) was an American politician and lawyer from the U.S. state of Virginia. A member of the Democratic...
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Robert George Whitehead (October 31, 1916 – February 22, 2007) was a Texas businessman who created Quaker House Products, Inc., which produced and marketed...
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Whitehead Torpedo Works was a company established in the 19th century by Robert Whitehead that developed the Whitehead torpedo. It spread from its initial...
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Worth School (section Robert Whitehead)
and showed part of Worth's campus from the air in its introduction. Robert Whitehead, inventor of the torpedo, built the school's clocktower and model farm...
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Whitehead wrote the play Alpha Beta, starring Albert Finney and Rachel Roberts. Whitehead died on 13 January 2023, at the age of 89. "Ted Whitehead"...
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Robert Whitehead (1856 to 1938) was an English land owner, businessman and Justice of the Peace (1915-1916). He was chairman or director of many business...
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Group. Cronyn was also a cousin of Canadian-born theater producer, Robert Whitehead, and a first cousin of the Canadian-British artist Hugh Verschoyle...
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Alfred North Whitehead OM FRS FBA (15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947) was an English mathematician and philosopher. He created the philosophical school...
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This usage likely inspired Robert Fulton's use of the term to describe his stationary mines, and later Robert Whitehead's naming of the first self-propelled...
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Canadian-born Broadway producer Robert Whitehead, a cousin of actor Hume Cronyn. They had two sons and were married until Whitehead's death in June 2002. In 1970...
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in 1882 and the first torpedo factory in the world in 1866, after Robert Whitehead, manager of the "Stabilimento Tecnico Fiumano" (an Austrian engineering...
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(Knight) John Whitehead (1854–1902), son of Robert Whitehead (1823–1905) who invented the modern torpedo and a partner at the family's Fiume Whitehead Torpedo...
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Geoffrey Whitehead (born 1 October 1939) is an English actor. He has appeared in a range of film, television and radio roles. In the theatre, he has played...
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recommendations of the 2018 Ombudsman Report into the activities of Robert Whitehead at Puffing Billy Railway and other Victorian heritage railway groups...
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actress Vera Wang (born 1949), lifelong resident and fashion designer Robert Whitehead (1916–2002), producer Sloan Wilson (1920–2003), author "Supervisor's...
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potential weapon with the development of the Whitehead torpedo, designed in 1866 by British engineer Robert Whitehead, the first practical self-propelled or...
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New Haven, Connecticut, directed by Harold Clurman and produced by Robert Whitehead. In 1959, she was featured in the comedy Golden Fleecing, starring...
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David Armand (born David Robert Whitehead in September 1977) is an English comedian, actor and writer who has performed on stage, film, radio and most...
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son of the engineer Robert Whitehead (1823–1905) by his wife Frances Maria Johnson (1821–1883). His elder sister, Alice Whitehead, married Georg Anton...
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Vince Lee Aldrovandra Cotton as Trader Viking Faizon Love as Pudbedder Robert Whitehead as Zach Devlin Jane Benney as Laleti Fem Belling as the Helicopter...
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