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In 1959, British engineer Francis Thomas Bacon successfully developed a 5 kW stationary fuel cell.
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`` Much of the navy's future depends upon her '', an American naval announcement said on the Skipjack's first arrival in British waters in August, 1959, for exhibition to selected high officers at Portland underwater research station.
In the autumn of 1959, the British Broadcasting Corporation presented a series of talks by four scientists competent in cosmology.
British Medical Journal, Jan. 3, 1959, 1 ( 5113 ): 1 – 6.
In 1959 he contributed to the British arts review X magazine ( other contributors included Bacon, Freud, Auerbach and Kokoschka ) with an article, The Dream, the Sphinx, and the Death of T, and drawings.
The official currency of the British Virgin Islands has been the US dollar since 1959, a currency also used by the United States Virgin Islands.
Because of traditionally close links with the U. S. Virgin Islands, the British Virgin Islands has used the US dollar as its currency since 1959.
The Cayman Islands ' physical isolation under early British colonial rule allowed the development of an indigenous set of administrative and legal traditions which were codified into a constitution in 1959.
* 1959 – The current flag of Singapore is adopted, six months after Singapore became self-governing within the British Empire.
* 1959 – Keith Deller, British darts player
* 1959 – Richard Dodds, British field hockey player
* 1959 – Deborah Meaden, British entrepreneur
In 1959, when former British crown colony Singapore gained self-government, it adopted the Malay style Yang di-Pertuan Negara ( literally means " head of state " in Malay ) for its governor ( the actual head of state remained the British monarch ).
A British 1 Shilling IRC issued in 1959.
* 2011 – Mark Ryan, British musician ( Adam and the Ants ) ( b. 1959 )
* 1903 – Robin Milford, British composer ( d. 1959 )
But Nasir, who was theoretically responsible to then sultan Muhammad Farid Didi, was challenged in 1959 by a local secessionist movement in the southern atolls that benefited economically from the British presence on Gan.
* 1959 – Nick Griffin, British politician
* 1959 – Tony Slattery, British actor
* 1959 – Charles Kennedy, British politician
* 1959 – Steve Rothery, British guitarist ( Marillion )
* 1959 – Albert Ketèlbey, British composer ( b. 1875 )
* 1959 – Maxwell Caulfield, British actor
* 1959 – Brian Bovell, British actor
1959 and engineer
* 1959 – Koichi Tanaka, Japanese engineer and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
* 1959 – Malcolm Oastler, Australian engineer and designer
At the end of March 1959, Porter took over as chief engineer at RCA's Nashville studio, in the space now known as " Studio B ".
* 1959 – Ben Linder, American engineer ( d. 1987 )
* April 28 – Ben Linder, American engineer ( b. 1959 )
The Carefree sundial, designed by architect Joe Wong and solar engineer John I. Yellott, was erected in the Sundial Circle plaza in 1959 and is the " third largest sundial in the Western Hemisphere ".
* Ellis L. Phillips ( 1874 – 1959 ), engineer, co-founder and first President: Long Island Lighting Company.
He trained as an engineer at the Moscow Aviation Institute and after graduation in 1959, joined Sergey Korolev's design bureau, where he worked on the design of the Vostok spacecraft.
Jonathan Adolf Wilhelm Zenneck ( April 15, 1871-April 8, 1959 ) was a physicist and electrical engineer.
Benjamin Ernest " Ben " Linder ( July 7, 1959 – April 28, 1987 ), was an American engineer who was working on a small hydroelectric dam in rural northern Nicaragua when he was killed by the Contras, an affiliation of rebel groups funded by the U. S. government / CIA.
Andrew Keith Paul Morton ( born 1959 in England ) is an Australian software engineer, best known as one of the lead developers of the Linux kernel.
In 1958, Volvo engineer Nils Bohlin invented and patented the modern 3-Point Safety Belt, which became standard on all Volvo cars in 1959.
Hydrolastic was developed by suspension engineer Alex Moulton and used rubber cones as the springing medium ( these were first used on the 1959 Mini ) with the suspension units on each side connected to each other by a fluid filled pipe.
In 1957 – 1959, he was deputy director of the Chistyakovantratsit trust, and after that, assistant chief engineer at the mine management office No. 2 / 43 of the Torezantratsit trust until his retirement in 1974.
Robert " Bob " Lazar ( born January 26, 1959 ) is a controversial individual who claims qualifications as a scientist and engineer and is known for his alleged work with extraterrestrial technology at Area 51.
As chief engineer of the electronics division of the Del Mar Engineering Labs at Los Angeles from 1956 to 1959, he also organized and directed its Avionics Division.
* Paul Trevithick ( born 1959 ), American inventor, engineer and entrepreneur
Wendy Barrien Lawrence ( born July 2, 1959 ) is a retired U. S. Navy Captain, former helicopter pilot, an engineer, and a former NASA astronaut.
** Katsuzō Nishi ( 西 勝造 1884 – 1959 ), technical engineer Japan's first subway project ( the Tokyo subway ) and Nishi Health System founder
Hardy Cross, 1885 – 1959, born in Nansemond County, Virginia, was a U. S. structural engineer and the developer of the moment distribution method for structural calculation of large buildings.
Ernest Frank Guelph Cox ( 1883 – 1959 ) was an electrical and mechanical engineer and marine salvage expert from Wolverhampton.
The grown Adam, an architect / engineer, designed the later sprawling ranch house as depicted on TV (" Bonanza, The Philip Diedesheimer Story ", Oct. 31, 1959, NBC-TV ; " Bonanza: The Return ", April 1993, NBC-TV ).
Carl Garner ( born William Garner circa 1916 ) served as resident engineer of Greers Ferry Lake since its construction in 1959, and in that capacity, he organized a citizen cleanup of the area which expanded to Carl Garner Federal Lands Cleanup Day.
Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Francis " Dick " Strawbridge, MBE, ( born 3 September 1959 ), is a British engineer, television presenter and environmentalist.
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