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During the time of the first flights, Frederick W. Lanchester, Martin Wilhelm Kutta, and Nikolai Zhukovsky independently created theories that connected circulation of a fluid flow to lift.
Frederick William Lanchester of Birmingham, England, experimented with the wick carburetor in cars.
The first caliper-type automobile disc brake was patented by Frederick William Lanchester in his Birmingham, UK factory in 1902 and used successfully on Lanchester cars.
The first caliper-type automobile disc brake was patented by Frederick William Lanchester in his Birmingham factory in 1902 and used successfully on Lanchester cars.
Although he was initially unable to sell his Knight Engine in the United States, a long sojourn in England, involving extensive further development and refinement by Daimler supervised by their consultant Dr Frederick Lanchester eventually secured Daimler and several luxury car firms as customers willing to pay his expensive premiums.
Frederick W. Lanchester: Built the first all British four wheel petrol driven car.
* Frederick W. Lanchester, Pioneer of the motor car
In a system invented by Dr. Frederick W. Lanchester in 1911, and popularised by Mitsubishi Motors in the 1970s, an inline-four engine uses two balance shafts, rotating in opposite directions at twice the crankshaft's speed, to offset the differences in piston speed.
** Frederick Lanchester ( 1868 – 1946 ) 1907 – 1930 consulting engineer, polymath
Daimler contracted Dr Frederick Lanchester as their consultant for the purpose and a major re-design and refinement of Knight's design took place in great secrecy.
They were described by Frederick Lanchester as " the Coventry Company Promoting Gang ".
Manville died in harness in 1933, Percy Martin was forced out two years later, Frederick Lanchester resigned as consultant in 1936, Laurence Pomeroy was not re-elected to the board and left for de Havilland.
Following the introduction of Daimler-Knight sleeve-valve engines re-designed for Daimler by Dr Frederick Lanchester Lanchester also refined the Gearless design and it re-emerged in 1910 as the KPL ( Knight-Pieper-Lanchester ) omnibus, a very advanced integral petrol electric hybrid.
The initial concept dates back to 1897, when English engineer Frederick W. Lanchester patented wing end-plates as a method for controlling wingtip vortices.
Blue plaque | Green plaque to Frederick Lanchester on his home in Moseley, Birmingham.
Frederick William Lanchester, Hon FRAeS FRS ( 23 October 1868 – 8 March 1946 ) was an English polymath and engineer who made important contributions to automotive engineering, aerodynamics and co-invented the field of operations research.
Although he achieved his fame through his creative brilliance as an engineer, Frederick Lanchester was a man of diverse interests, blessed with a fine singing voice.
* March 8 – Frederick W. Lanchester ( born 1868 ), automotive engineer.
Although the screw propeller had been added to an engine ( steam engine ) as early as the 18th century in Birmingham, England by James Watt, the petrol engine only came about in the later part of the 19th century, at which point Frederick William Lanchester recognized the potential of combining the two components to create the first all British powerboat ; tested in Oxford, England, the powerboat was born.
* Frederick W. Lanchester, engineer who devised Lanchester's laws and founded Lanchester Motor Company
* Henry Vaughan Lanchester, architect and brother of Frederick W.

Frederick and Building
Wilmerding's most notable historic structure is the Westinghouse Air Brake Company General Office Building ( 1889 – 1890, rebuilt 1896 ), designed by Frederick J. Osterling and now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
It was designed by E. Townsend Mix, who also designed Minneapolis's Metropolitan Building, and the outdoor landscape was laid out by Frederick Law Olmsted.
Sir Frederick Mappin Building, Faculty of Engineering.
* Frederick Stearns Building addition, 1906
This being inclosed with a strong Brick Wall, and having a Walk round, and two cross Walks, decently planted with Yew-trees, the four Quarters may serve four Parishes, where the Dead need not be disturbed at the Pleasure of the Sexton, or piled four or five upon one another, or Bones thrown out to gain Room .</ br > Wren, Letter of advice to the Commissioners for Building Fifty New City Churches, 1711 </ ref > In 1830, George Frederick Carden, editor of The Penny Magazine, successfully petitioned Parliament about the parlous state of London's over-full church burial yards.
The Frederick Lanchester Building housing the library
The rotunda of the Russell Building featuring the sculpture by Frederick Hart ( sculptor ) | Frederick Hart.
In addition to the Powelton Historic District, the Bell Telephone Exchange Building, The Powelton, Frederick A. Poth Houses, and John Shedwick Development Houses are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
:: Timothy Colton, Big Daddy: Frederick G. Gardiner and the Building of Metropolitan Toronto
Portrait of Frederick Douglass in the DC Recorder of Deeds Building.
In 1942, the Tower Building was renovated due to the efforts of the Æsthetic Club, Little Rock philanthropist Frederick W. Allsop, and the Works Progress Administration.
Among the significant architectural structures on the Lamoni Campus are the Higdon Administration Building, the Roy A. Cheville Chapel, Closson Physical Education Center, Frederick Madison Smith Library, and the Shaw Center.
* Frederick Van Cortlandt Mansion, Broadway & Two-hundred-forty-second Street, Bronx, Bronx, NY: 8 photos, 1 data page, and supplemental material at Historic American Building Survey
The main buildings are the Learning Resource Center ; the Arts, Sciences and Technologies Center ; and the Frederick Lowe Building, which is the oldest building on the campus, having been dedicated in 1986.
The various Lords North and their families, including Frederick, Lord North and their royal, literary, and Presidential visitors — James I in 1605, Charles I on 13 July 1643, George IV in 1805, 06 and 08, William IV, Teddy Roosevelt in 1887 where he slept in William IV the Duke of Clarence's bed, Horace Walpole, Henry James, Frederick, Prince of Wales as well as the structure itself, led to the Abbey's designation as a Grade One Listed Building.
In 1942, the Tower Building of the Little Rock Arsenal was renovated due to the efforts of the Æsthetic Club, Little Rock philanthropist Frederick W. Allsop, and the Works Progress Administration.
* Frederick Cleary CBE, founder of the City & Metropolitan Building Society in 1948 ( merged with the Stroud & Swindon Building Society in 1996 )
Designed by the architectural firm of Clarence Blackall and paid for by Frederick Lothrop Ames ( see also Ames Building, Boston ) the theatre first opened its doors for a performance of Ben-Hur on December 20, 1900.

Frederick and designer
Its main designer was Frederick Todd, a protégé of the junior Olmsted and Canada's most prominent landscape architect of the early 20th century.
* October 13 – Charles Frederick Worth, Father of Haute Couture, Fashion designer ( d. 1895 )
Other industrial encroachments and lack of public access led to a conservation movement in the U. S. known as Free Niagara, led by such notables as Hudson River school artist Frederic Edwin Church, landscape designer Frederick Law Olmsted, and architect Henry Hobson Richardson.
Frederick Law Olmsted ( April 26, 1822 – August 28, 1903 ) was an American journalist, social critic, public administrator, and landscape designer.
* Frederick W. Garry 1951, Jet designer and National Medal of Technology winner
Much of this residential redevelopment was planned by Frederick Gibberd, the designer of Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral.
The grounds of the estate were landscaped by the foremost designer, Frederick Law Olmsted.
It was founded in 1912 and was named after Natalie Pearson Nicholson, daughter of Frederick Stark Pearson, engineer, designer and builder of the Medina Dam.
The conceptual plan for a new park and road was drawn by Frederick Law Olmsted, designer of the nearby Central Park.
Though Burnham maintained overall control of the design process, he was not directly connected with the details of the structure as built ; credit should be shared with his designer Frederick P. Dinkelberg, a Pennsylvania-born architect in Burnham's office, who first worked for Burnham in putting together the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, for which Burnham was the chief of construction and master designer.
The English fashion designer Charles Frederick Worth is widely considered the father of Haute couture.
Landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, the designer of Central Park, was also commissioned to design the landscape for the Twombly-Vanderbilt estate ( now the College at Florham campus ).
Working with Camm at Hawker were Sir Frederick Page ( later to design the English Electric Lightning ), Leslie Appleton ( later to design the advanced Fairey Delta 2 and Britain's first air-to-air missile, the Fairey Fireflash ), Stuart Davies ( joined Avro in 1936 and later to be chief designer of the Avro Vulcan ), Roy Chaplin ( became Chief Designer at Hawker in 1957 ) and Sir Robert Lickley ( Chief Project Engineer during the war, and later to be Chief Engineer at Fairey ).
Together with his brother Oakes Angier Ames, Oliver created many important buildings and landscapes in North Easton with architect H. H. Richardson and landscape designer Frederick Law Olmsted.
In 1920, aircraft designer Frederick ' Frits ' Koolhoven returned from England to his native Netherlands.
Watsessing Park was designed in 1899 by the famous Olmsted Brothers of Brookline, Massachusetts ( sons of Frederick Law Olmsted, designer of Manhattan's Central Park ).
* Charles Frederick Worth ( 1825-1895 ), an English-born fashion designer of the 19th century
He hired Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., son of the designer of Central Park, to plan a park that he would give to the city.
Sir Frederick Ernest Gibberd ( 7 January 1908 – 9 January 1984 ) was an English architect, town planner and landscape designer.
Even after Van Campen's death, his work greatly influenced Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen, the designer of the Kleefse gardens ( the gardens of Cleve ), and on Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg.
Developed by Walter H. Leimert ( for whom it is named ) beginning in 1928 and designed by the Olmsted brothers ( sons of New York Central Park designer Frederick Law Olmsted ), Leimert Park was one of the first comprehensively planned communities in Southern California designed for upper and middle-income families, and was considered a model of urban planning for its time: automobile traffic near schools and churches was minimized, utility wires were buried or hidden from view in alleys, and densely planted trees lined its streets.
While most of Chestnut Hill remained farmland well into the early twentieth century, the area around the reservoir was developed, in 1870, by renowned landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, designer of Central Park in New York and of the Emerald Necklace in Boston and Brookline.
Frederick Law Olmsted, the original landscape designer of Franklin Park, created plans for a future zoological garden.

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