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A 1901 Geneva steam-powered car toured the island and was exhibited in Marquette Park before being towed by horse back to British Landing.
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1901 and Geneva
* 1901: Henry Dunant, who co-founded the Geneva YMCA in 1852, and was one of the founders of the World Alliance of YMCAs, won the first ever Nobel Peace Prize for founding the International Committee of the Red Cross in 1863, and inspiring the Geneva Convention ( Convention de Genève ).
In 1901, he was appointed assistant lecturer at the University of Geneva and, in 1904, senior lecturer at the University of Manchester.
Weizmann lectured in chemistry at the University of Geneva between 1901 and 1903, and later taught at the University of Manchester.
The first train running on the account of the Swiss Confederation ran during the night of New Year's Day in 1901 from Zurich via Bern to Geneva, although 1 January 1902 is regarded as the official birth date of Swiss Federal Railways.
The success in Paris led to productions in Algiers, Brussels, Budapest and Milan in 1901 and in Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Geneva and Stockholm in 1902, followed by other cities.
He then travelled around Europe, moving to Germany ( where he studied composition from 1900 – 1901 with Iwan Knorr at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt ), on to Paris in 1903 and back to Geneva before settling in the United States in 1916, taking American citizenship in 1924.
1901 and steam-powered
A failed attempt to build a steam-powered car was made in 1900 under license from Overman but, by 1901 Pierce built its first single-cylinder two-speed, no-reverse Motorette with the engine licensed from de Dion.
1901 and car
* 1901 – Rudolf Caracciola, German race car driver ( d. 1959 )
* 1901 – Martín De Álzaga, Argentine race car driver ( d. 1982 )
In January 1901, the first two seater car, imported by Goupille & Cie, was disembarked.
Further diversification occurred in 1901 with the acquisition of a proposed business which was incorporated as The Wolseley Tool and Motor Car Company and in 1905 the goodwill and patent rights of the Siddeley car.
** Rudolf Caracciola, German race car driver ( b. 1901 )
The 1901 to 1904 Oldsmobile Curved Dash was the first mass-produced car, made from the first automotive assembly line, an invention that is often miscredited to Henry Ford and the Ford Motor Company.
These were not the first presidents to come to Elko County: William McKinley visited in 1901 ; Herbert Hoover made his final campaign broadcast as president from a railroad car in Elko in 1932 ; President Roosevelt spoke in Carlin in 1938 during his whistle stop tour ; and Barack Obama visited while campaigning in 2008.
.. the first electric car operated to the Funkstown Bridge was in the year 1898 and the first through Funkstown was in 1901, and that service was discontinued in 1938?
The largest commercial enterprise to occur in Hartwick was probably the Oneonta-Mohawk trolley line which arrived in 1901 and had extensive shops, car barn and yards on the southeast side of the village, many of the hamlets and crossings still show architectural signs of its passage nearly a century after the last passenger service.
In 1901, the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad announced it would build large rail car shops near Avis, west of Jersey Shore, on the far side of Pine Creek.
1901 brought Snohomish the first motor car in the county.
For 1901, Montague designed a car sure not to lack speed, having a 16. 3 liter ( 995. 5 cu in ) ( 165. 1 × 190. 5 mm, 6. 5 × 7. 5 in ) sidevalve four capable of at 800 rpm, on a wheelbase of 115 inches ( 2. 921 m ) with four-speed gearbox and chain drive.
Doctor Mopp drives a vintage car ( reg 1901 ) and wears a top hat and beard.
By 1913 Henry Ford had built a new factory in Manchester and was the leading UK producer, building 7310 cars that year, followed by Wolseley at 3000, Humber ( making cars since 1898 in Coventry ) at 2500, Rover ( Coventry car maker since 1904 ) at 1800 and Sunbeam ( producing cars since 1901 ) at 1700, with the plethora of smaller producers bringing the 1913 total up to about 16, 000 vehicles.
The Oneonta and Mohawk Trolley route passed through Laurens, the first car reaching Laurens from Oneonta on July 4, 1901.
Hemispherical cylinder heads have been used since at least 1901 ; they were used by the Belgian car maker Pipe in 1905, the Peugeot Grand Prix Car of 1912 and the Alfa Romeo Grand Prix car of 1914 both were four valve engines also, Daimler, and Riley were also using hemispherical combustion chambers.
Ernest Proctor, who was employed at the Westcroft Works, was given the job of assembling this hybrid car, which comprised a very early two-cylinder engine-number 30-of 1901 or 1902 vintage, a 1904 chassis-number 126, and a body destined for four-cylinder car number 156.
Porsche had experience of this form of petrol-electric transmission extending back to 1901, when he designed a car that used it.
In 1901 he founded ( with the Vickers brothers ) and ran the business he made Britain's largest car manufacturer, The Wolseley Tool and Motor Car Company.
The first NSU motorcycle appeared in 1901, followed by the first NSU car in 1905.
The first car to be marketed to the ( well off but not rich ) ordinary person and so the first ' economy car ', was the 1901 – 1907 Oldsmobile Curved Dash-it was produced by the thousands.
1901 and toured
The orchestra toured to several major cities during Herbert's years as conductor, notably premiering Herbert's Auditorium Festival March for the celebration of the twelfth anniversary of Chicago's Auditorium Theatre in 1901.
The company also toured nationally, along the western United States, from October 8, 1900 until March 30, 1901.
After great success following his debut in Vienna, and in London ( where he first appeared at a Hans Richter concert in 1900 ), Kubelík toured in the USA in 1901 for the first time.
She played Phyllis in the first London revival of Iolanthe ( 1901 – 1902 ) and then toured with The Emerald Isle.
In December 1901, Lawley toured the south-western parts of the province along with Lord Hopetown.
With Greet, she toured for three years in the roles of Mamie Clancy in The Belle of New York and Dolly Twinkle in The Casino Girl ( 1901 ).
The England cricket team, organised and captained by Archie MacLaren, toured Australia to compete for the Ashes in the summer of 1901 – 02.
In 1901 he gave a performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1 in Warsaw and soon after toured Europe and the Americas as a child prodigy.
Although both were invited, neither Hirst nor Rhodes toured Australia in the winter of 1901 – 02 with Archie MacLaren's team, as the Yorkshire committee wanted both players to be well rested before the new season.
He toured with the D ' Oyly Carte Opera Company in such productions as The Emerald Isle ( 1901 ) and The Talk of the Town ( 1905 ) before disarming vocal problems set in and he was forced to abandon this career path.
1901 and island
Low-intensity storms have hit the island, including in 1901, which blew over 1, 500 coconut trees, on September 16, 1944 which caused the wreck of a Royal Air Force PBY Catalina, September 1990 which demolished the tent city then being constructed for USAF bomber crews during Operation Desert Storm, and on July 22, 2007 when winds exceeded and over of rain fell in 24 hours.
Fenrir has been depicted in the artwork " Odin and Fenris " ( 1909 ) and " The Binding of Fenris " ( around 1900 ) by Dorothy Hardy, " Odin und Fenriswolf " and " Fesselung des Fenriswolfe " ( 1901 ) by Emil Doepler, and is the subject of the metal sculpture " Fenrir " by A. V. Gunnerud located on the island of Askøy, Norway.
Niue was a British protectorate for a time, but the UK's direct involvement ended in 1901 when New Zealand annexed the island.
For example, in 1901, on Goaribari Island in the Gulf of Papua, a missionary, Harry Dauncey, found 10, 000 skulls in the island ’ s Long Houses.
Alameda, the largest island, was created when a shipping lane was cut in 1901.
The St Helena Church News was published from 1888, the Parish Magazine from 1889, the Diocesan Magazine from 1901 and the Jamestown Monthly from 1912 The latter was renamed the St Helena Church Magazine and was published until 1945 by Canon Wallcot, who extended news coverage from church matters to also include island news after the closure of the St Helena Guardian.
Map of the island in 1901, with the red line marking the approximate limit of Japanese control
The companies Dole and Del Monte began growing pineapple on the island of Oahu in 1901 and 1917, respectively.
The island is named after Queen Victoria, the Canadian sovereign from 1867 to 1901.
Marine investigations in the area have also identified new species of anemone, rediscovered the fan mussel ( the UK's largest and rarest bivalve mollusc-thought to be found only in Plymouth Sound and a few sites off the west of Scotland ) and a number of shipwreck sites, including HMS Drake ( 1901 ), which was torpedoed and sank just off the island in 1917.
Construction began in 1901 by laying a railway from the west end of the island to the east.
In 1901 Ballin built the Emigration Halls ( now the Museum " BallinStadt ") on the Hamburg island of Veddel to accommodate the many thousands of people from all over Europe who arrived at the Port of Hamburg every week to emigrate to North and South America on his company's ships.
In 1901, on Goaribari Island in the Gulf of Papua, a missionary, Harry Dauncey, found 10, 000 skulls in the island ’ s Long Houses.
In 1901, in the middle of the Philippine-American War, American soldiers landed in Camiguin to assume political control over the island.
It was later rebuilt and in 1901 Balfour put the island up for sale.
He was initially posted as Military Governor of Basilan from 1899 to 1901, and was tasked at the establishment of a civil government for the island of Basilan.
The Sheppey Light Railway opened in 1901, connecting the new Sheerness East station with the rest of the island.
Logging, always an important part of the island economy, expanded greatly with the formation of the Beaver Island Logging Company in 1901.
In 1901 he started a regular ferry service to the island with his ship the Bee.
In 1901, the United States Life-Saving Service built a station on the island.
After the federation of Australia in 1901, Torres Strait Islanders including the people of Mabuaig island became subject to " protection ," and it wasn't until well after World War Two, in the 1960s, that they could get married or travel to mainland Australia or other islands without Queensland Department of Aboriginal and Islander Affairs ( DAIA ) approval.
The first city ordinances banning all motorized vehicles from the island were passed on July 6, 1898, with similar state park rules coming in 1901.
In 1901 Peter O. Bogen set up a whaling station in Lopra on the island of Suðuroy together with H. G.
Already, in 1901 a British government memorandum openly suggested that, where strategic necessity required, Britain would seize any of the Persian islands, and in March 1902 Curzon recommended that the British navy hoist a flag on Qeshm island in the case of necessity.
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