The hardware of the BBC Micro was emulated by a single customized ULA chip designed by Acorn in conjunction with Ferranti.

Ferranti Canada had first been set up in 1912, acting primarily as a sales and distribution arm for their British designed electrical products.

Ferranti had been building a small number of scientific machines based on various university designs since the 1950s.

However, the Ferranti company of Great Britain entered the valve business with the first known UK produced pentagrid, the VHT4 late in 1933 ( though it must have been in development, and would certainly have existed as a prototype well before this time ).

Eventually it set up branch-plants in Edinburgh ( Silverknowes, Crewe Toll, Gyle, Granton and Robertson Avenue factories ), Dalkeith, Aberdeen, Dundee, Bracknell and Cwmbran as well as Germany and the United States ( inc. Ferranti International Controls Corporation

" Ferranti pioneered the use of Alternating Current for the distribution of electrical power in Europe authoring 176 patents on the alternator, high-tension cables, insulation, circuit breakers, transformers and turbines.

Although textile-related engineering declined with the processing industry, leading to the demise of both Stotts and Platts, other engineering firms existed, notably electrical and later electronic engineers Ferranti in 1896.

Its primary feature of interest is Baslow Hall, which was once occupied by Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti, the radio and electrical pioneer and inventor, and next by George Kenning.

The locally quarried gritstone has weathered nicely over the past 90 years and the house looks as though it belongs to the 17th Century. In 1913 the house was bought by the famous electrical engineer and inventor Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti, whose seventh and last child, Yvonne, was born at the Hall in July 1914. That the Ferranti ’ s were happy here is clear from Mrs de Ferranti ’ s charming biography of her husband, but it is equally evident that life at the Hall had its hazards, largely because ‘ Basti ’( as Mrs Ferranti affectionately called her husband ), could not confine his passion for electricity to working hours.

Ferranti or Ferranti International plc was a UK electrical engineering and equipment firm that operated for over a century from 1885 until it went bankrupt in 1993.

Success followed and Ferranti started producing electrical equipment for sale.

Ferranti built a new power transformer works at Hollinwood in the late 1940s ; however, the orders the company had hoped for did not materialize, and the transformer division closed in 1979, severing the last link Ferranti had with heavy electrical engineering.

Just such a project started soon after, when word of the Ferranti meeting reached Jim Belyea, a researcher in the Canadian Navy's electrical labs.

Sebastian Pietro Innocenzo Adhemar Ziani de Ferranti ( April 9, 1864 – January 13, 1930 ) was an electrical engineer and inventor.

Ferranti showed a remarkable talent for electrical engineering from his childhood.

Reportedly, around the age of 16, he built an electrical generator ( that had a " Zig-zag armature ") with the help of William Thomson ( the future Lord Kelvin ) and later patented the device ( called the " Ferranti Dynamo ").

He worked for Siemens Brothers at Charlton, London and in 1882 he set up shop in London designing various electrical devices as the firm Ferranti, Thompson and Ince.

A copy of the letter was sent to Ferranti Canada, then a small distributor of Ferranti's United Kingdom electrical equipment.

After leaving the University of Nottingham in 1882, Fleming took up the post of " Electrician " to the Edison Electrical Light Company, advising on lighting systems and the new Ferranti alternating current systems.

The department dealing with airport systems was bought by Datel in around 1995 and continued to trade under the name Ferranti Airport Systems until it was bought by Ultra Electronics.

; Ferranti Technologies: was bought out by management and continues in Oldham specialising in avionics, defence electronics, and electronic power systems.

The Bell 202 standard was adopted around 1980 as the communications standard for subsea oil and gas production control systems, pioneered by the then FSSL Controls, a spin-out company from Ferranti.

Thomson Marconi Sonar ( TMS ) was formed as Ferranti Thomson Sonar Systems ( FTSS ) in 1990 by the merger of the sonar systems businesses of Thomson-CSF and Ferranti.

After the sonar systems businesses of Thomson-CSF and Ferranti were merged ( creating Ferranti Thomson Sonar Systems ), GEC-Marconi acquired Ferranti's share, and the company became Thomson Marconi Sonar ( TMS ).

BAeSEMA's major competitor in the UK naval systems market was GEC-Marconi through its Ferranti Naval Systems and Plessey Naval Systems businesses.

Other Autocodes were developed for the Titan ( computer ) ( a prototype Atlas 2 ) at Cambridge and the Ferranti Mercury.

It was used to write software for both the Ferranti and GEC computers from 1971 onwards.

The Mark 1 in turn quickly became the prototype for the Ferranti Mark 1, the world's first commercially available general-purpose computer.

* Programmer's handbook for the Ferranti Mercury Computer, Frederic at the Norwegian Defense Research Establishment / By O .- J.

He then enrolled at King's College, Cambridge, graduating in 1957, Milner first worked as a schoolteacher then as a programmer at Ferranti, before entering academia at City University, London, then Swansea University, Stanford University, and from 1973 at the University of Edinburgh, where he was a co-founder of the Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science ( LFCS ).

For example, Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti planned what would have been the largest reciprocating steam engine ever built for a proposed new central station, but scrapped the plans when turbines became available in the necessary size.

It is currently proposed for demolition and replacement with blocks of flats The town was also the home of Racal and Ferranti Computer Systems Ltd.

The next computer for his laboratory was the Titan, a joint venture with Ferranti Ltd begun in 1963.

The Mark 1 in turn quickly became the prototype for the Ferranti Mark 1, the world's first commercially available general-purpose computer.

Also in that year, proposals for Titan, based on the Ferranti Atlas machine, were developed.

The Manchester Mark 1 effectively served as a prototype for the Ferranti Mark 1 ; the main improvements over it were in the size of the primary and secondary storage, a faster multiplier, and additional instructions.

Ferranti had high hopes for further sales, and were encouraged by an order placed by the Atomic Energy Research Establishment for delivery in autumn 1952.

In November 1951, Dr. Dietrich Prinz wrote one of the oldest computer games, a chess-playing program for the Manchester Ferranti Mark 1 computer.

Ferranti would develop the radar and guidance system for both.

Bristol engineers sharing a taxi with their Ferranti counterparts hatched a new plan to adapt the Blue Envoy ramjets and radars to a lengthened Bloodhound, and submitted this for study.

II was guided by either the Ferranti Type 86 Firelight radar for mobile use, or the larger fixed-emplacement Marconi Type 87 " Scorpion ".

Many of the calculations in terms of lead, frequency shifting, and pointing angles for the radars were handled by the custom-built Ferranti Argus computer.

In 1987 GEC argued that the contractual relationships were partly to blame for the delay in the Foxhunter entering service – although GEC was responsible for most of the radar, Ferranti manufactured the transmitter and reported to the Ministry of Defence who acted as the prime contactor.