Other names connected to the city include Max Born, physicist and Nobel laureate ; Charles Darwin, the biologist who discovered natural selection ; David Hume, a philosopher, economist and historian ; James Hutton, regarded as the " Father of Geology "; John Napier inventor of logarithms ; chemist and one of the founders of thermodynamics Joseph Black ; pioneering medical researchers Joseph Lister and James Young Simpson ; chemist and discoverer of the element nitrogen, Daniel Rutherford ; mathematician and developer of the Maclaurin series, Colin Maclaurin and Ian Wilmut, the geneticist involved in the cloning of Dolly the sheep just outside Edinburgh.

Garrard County is in the 6th Congressional District, represented by US Rep. Ben Chandler ; in the 22nd State Senatorial District represented by State Senator Tom Buford and in the 36th State Legislative District represented by State Representative Lonnie Napier.

Napier Hill was the scene of a police siege of an armed criminal in May 2009, with one police officer and the gunman being killed ; and two police officers and one member of the public being wounded.

The last Napier car was designed by A. J. Rowledge, who also designed the Lion ( and who went to Rolls in 1921 ), a 40 / 50 hp 377 cu in ( 6, 177 cc ) ( 102 × 127 mm, 4 × 5 in ) alloy six with detachable cylinder head, single overhead camshaft, seven-bearing crankshaft, dual magneto and coil ignition, dual plugs, and Napier-SU carburetter ; it was bodied by Cunard, then a subsidiary.

Recognising the value of publicity gained from auto racing, which no other British marque did, in spring, Edge entered an 8 hp ( 6 kW ) Napier in the Thousand Miles ( 1, 600 km ) Trial of the Automobile Club on behalf of Edward Kennard ; driven by Edge, with Kennard along, on a circuit from Newbury to Edinburgh and back, she won her class, being one of only thirty-five finishers ( of sixty-four starters ) and one of just twelve to average the requisite 12 mph ( 19 km / h ) in England and 10 mph ( 16 km / h ) in Scotland.

Today Napier Turbochargers is a wholly self-owned company employing around 160 people, having previously been owned by Siemens Power Generation, specifically Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery Ltd being based on the same site in Lincoln when it bought the neighbouring Alstom Power Turbines in March 2003 ; Alstom ( former GEC-Alsthom ) had owned the company since GEC bought English Electric in the late 1960s.

New machines based on Archer's principles were constructed by David Napier and Son Ltd ; these were initially used in October 1853 for revenue stamps and from January 1854 for postage stamps.

* Colonel George Napier ( 1751 – 1804 ), his father ;

* Leyland L60 tank engine, used in the Chieftain tank ; similar in layout to the Junkers Jumo 205 and Napier Culverin

Incidentally, Kepler used another one of Napier's inventions for his calculations ( much more appropriate for computing planets ' orbits than his Napier's bones ): the logarithm tables ; Because of this, Kepler dedicated his Ephemeris to John Napier.

Transmitters in the North Island are located in Auckland on AM 882 kHz, Napier on AM 909 kHz and Wellington on AM 657 kHz ; a transmitter for Hamilton on AM 1494 kHz was added in 2007.

* Martin-Baker M. B. 3 ( 1942 ): a six-cannon fighter design, powered by a Napier Sabre ; Val Baker was killed in a crash while testing the prototype.

After months of planning and other preparations, the advance guard of engineers landed at Zula on the Red Sea to construct a port on 30 October 1867 ; Napier himself arrived in Zula on 2 January 1868, and on 25 January led his troops south in the Ethiopian highlands.

On the one hand, Napier made it clear to the Ethiopians that the sole intent of the British force was to rescue the imprisoned Europeans — not conquest ; on the other, Napier met with local potentates such as Ras Kassa ( the future Emperor Yohannes IV ), and arranged to purchase needed supplies with the 4. 35 million Maria Theresa Thalers ( the preferred currency of the area ) the British had purchased from the mint in Vienna.

The unveiling was attended by Mayo's son, the 7th Earl ; Lord Napier and Ettrick ; the Bishop of Carlisle Harvey Goodwin: and the Earl of Lonsdale.

By January 2007, the faulty power unit was removed from 55 022, put into storage and replaced by an ex-marine Napier Deltic engine modified for rail use ; work was complete by Royal Scots Greys dedicated team in August 2007.

John Napier is best known as the discoverer of logarithms.

On his departure in 1847, Napier is said to have remarked, " Would that I could come again to see you in your grandeur!

The speed of the film is important because, as Napier writes, " if the movie was filmed at 24 frame / s then the creature's walk cannot be distinguished from a normal human walk.

Others ( including primatologist John Napier, who published before Dahinden and Krantz ) have expressed a different opinion, contending it was " likely that Patterson would have used 24 frame / s " because it " is best suited to TV transmission ," while conceding that " this is entirely speculative.

Napier has noted that a sagittal crest is " only very occasionally seen, to an insignificant extent, in chimpanzees ( sic ) females.

* February 3 – Hawke's Bay earthquake: Much of the New Zealand city of Napier is destroyed in an earthquake measuring 7. 9 on the Richter scale.

The unit's name is derived from the name of John Napier, the inventor of logarithms.

John Napier Wyndham Turner, PC, CC, QC ( born June 7, 1929 ) is an English Canadian lawyer and retired politician, who served as the 17th Prime Minister of Canada from June 30 to September 17, 1984.

The Jack Kilby Computer Centre at the Merchiston Campus of Edinburgh Napier University in Edinburgh is also named in his honor.

A final segment is planned to continue the freeway from Napier Avenue north to the junction with I-94 and BL I-94 with a full cloverleaf interchange.

The park is located in the Napier Range and covers an area of.

The rocks are part of the Napier Range, an ancient Devonian reef system that is over 375 million years old.

Napier Field is a town in Dale County, Alabama, United States.

Napier Field is located at ( 31. 315265 ,-85. 454340 ).

* Lonnie Napier ( 1940-) is the current representative for House District 36 in the Kentucky House of Representatives.

Napier Township is a township in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, United States.

He returned through Napier Township in Bedford County and decided instead to settle in what is the present location of Schellsburg.

* John Cantrell and Gillian Cookson, eds., Henry Maudslay and the Pioneers of the Machine Age, 2002, Tempus Publishing, Ltd, pb., ( ISBN 0-7524-2766-0 ) This is a collection of essays by various specialists, and comprises biographies of Maudslay, Roberts, Napier, Clement, Whitworth, Nasmyth and Muir, as well as an account of the London Engineering Scene at the time of Maudslay, and an account of the firm from the death of Maudslay in 1831 until its demise in 1904.

Forster is the stepson of actor Whit Bissell, step-grandson of actor Alan Napier, who portrayed Alfred the Butler in the Batman television series ( 1966 – 1968 ), and the great-great-great-grandson of author Charles Dickens.

The British choice of green is partly due to the event being held in Ireland, which at the time is part of the UK, and to precedent as the winning Napier of 1902 had been painted olive green.

The population of Napier is about About 18 kilometres south of Napier is the inland city of Hastings.

* Art Deco Napier, New Zealand

* 2009 – Over 100 New Zealand Police officers begin a 40-hour siege of a lone gunman in Napier, New Zealand.

* Napier City Rovers, a New Zealand association football club

* Napier, New Zealand

* Napier, New Zealand

Twelve cities are in the North Island: Auckland, New Plymouth, Tauranga, Gisborne, Napier, Hamilton, Hastings, Palmerston North, Rotorua, Wanganui, Whangarei and Wellington, the capital, located at the southern extremity of the island.

The total population of the metropolitan area of Napier and Hastings is about 122, 600 people, which makes Napier-Hastings the fifth-largest metropolitan area in New Zealand, closely followed by Tauranga ( pop.

Napier is the nexus of the largest wool centre in the Southern Hemisphere, and it has the primary export seaport for northeastern New Zealand – which is the largest producer of apples, pears, and stone fruit in New Zealand.

Between 1858 and 1876 Napier was the administrative centre for the Hawke's Bay Province, but in 1876 the " Abolition of Provinces Act ", an act of the Parliament of New Zealand, dissolved all provincial governments in New Zealand.

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Tectonic map of New Zealand with the interpreted position of the Napier Fault highlighted

The 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake, also known as the Napier earthquake, occurred in New Zealand at 10: 47 am on Tuesday 3 February 1931, killing 256 and devastating the Hawke's Bay region.

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In 1871, the New Zealand Government decided to route the new railway south of Napier through a notional Karamu junction in the centre of the Heretaunga Plains.

Napiers also inspired Charles J. Glidden to create the Glidden Tours in upstate New York, which in turn persuaded Napier to build a factory in Boston.

* Napier County, New South Wales

* Napier, New South Wales, a locality in the Riverina region