John Napier of Merchiston ( 1550 – 4 April 1617 ) – also signed as Neper, Nepair – named Marvellous Merchiston, was a Scottish landowner known as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer and astrologer.

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

The greatest success for single sleeve valves ( SSV ) was in Bristol's large aircraft engines and they were also used in the Napier Sabre and Rolls-Royce Eagle engines.

Napier has also become an important grape and wine production area, with the grapes grown mostly around Hastings being sent through the Port of Napier for export.

Large amounts of sheep's wool, frozen meat, wood pulp, and timber also pass through Napier annually for export.

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.

In any event, the name fitted well with other place names in the district ( Napier, Havelock and Clive ), which were also named after prominent figures in the history of British India.

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.

Outside the racing program, Napier also gained notoriety in 1904 by being the first car to cross the Canadian Rockies, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Glidden ( sponsors of the Glidden Tours ) covering 3, 536 mi ( 5, 690 km ) from Boston to Vancouver.

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.

It was found in Napier where it was eradicated and was also found in the Auckland Region in 1989.

Tamatea is also the name of a place in Napier.

The town also has three secondary schools-North Oxfordshire Academy, Banbury School and Blessed George Napier Roman Catholic School and Sports College-and a number of primary schools.

See also the Selected Correspondence of Macvey Napier ( 1877 ); the sketch of Jeffrey in Carlyle's Reminiscences, vol.

The British General Napier also started to march his army back towards Bombay.

He had also considered the new and powerful Napier Sabre and Bristol Centaurus engines.

In the port area, there is also a Napier Mole.

His eldest son, Francis Napier, also entered diplomatic service and was promoted by Palmerston for the rest of his life.

He was also a board member for the Lothian and Borders Police and became a governor of Napier College in 1985 for two years.

Smaller cities such as Hamilton, Nelson, Napier, Hastings and Palmerston North were also won by Labour.

Between 1683 and 1686, the Lords of Napier also held the Nicolson Baronetcy, of Carnock in the County of Stirling, and since 1725 the Scott Baronetcy, of Thirlestane in the County of Selkirk, both baronetcies created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia.

In a different interview Napier also claimed to have been introduced to the movies when his girlfriend brought him along as an informal bodyguard for an audition with Russ Meyers.

Napier as Wolfson Lucas was teamed with Rod Taylor again for the short lived series Outlaws which also featured Richard Roundtree and William Lucking in 1986.

He was stage-struck from childhood and after graduating from Clifton College, the tall 6 ft 6 in ( 1. 98 m ), booming-voiced Napier studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, then later was engaged by the Oxford Players, where he worked with such raw young talent as Sir John Gielgud and Robert Morley.

Byron and Box worked well together and teamed up to form the band Spice which also featured Paul Newton on bass and Alex Napier on drums.

While Ricardo worked with Bristol Engines, Halford worked with Napier & Son on their Sabre design which would go on to be one of the most powerful piston aero engines, producing 3, 500 hp ( 2. 6 MW ) from only 2200 cubic inches ( 36 L ) in late-war versions.

Napier goes on to point out that many Japanese commentators refer to anime with the term " mukokuseki ", meaning " stateless ".

This event was instrumental in the creation of the Napier Commission, which reported in 1884 on the situation in the Highlands and disturbances continued until the passing of the 1886 Crofters ' Act.

The town was later annexed to British India when Sindh was annexed by Major-General Charles James Napier at the Battle of Miani on 17 February 1843.

Several major Māori tracks were known, such as the western coastal track was used along the whole length of the North Island, and the track on the East Coast, which however left the coast near Castlepoint and rejoined it near Napier.

William Oughtred and others developed the slide rule in the 17th century based on the emerging work on logarithms by John Napier.

Starting with the Fairey Gyrodyne, this type of aircraft later evolved into the much larger twin-engined Fairey Rotodyne, that used tipjets to power the rotor on take-off and landing but which then used two Napier Eland turboprops driving conventional propellers mounted on substantial wings to provide propulsion, the wings serving to unload the rotor during horizontal flight.

* 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.

Days later, on November 11, 1972, Berry Oakley died from head injuries he received in another motorcycle accident near Napier Avenue and Inverness Street, only three blocks from the site of Duane's accident the previous year.

William Napier writes: " The Spaniards came on at a trot, and Sebastiani directed Paris, with a regiment of light cavalry and the Polish lancers, to turn and fall upon the right flank of the approaching squadrons, which being executed with great vigor, especially by the Poles, caused considerable confusion, with the Spanish general endeavored to remedy by closing to the assailed flank.

Major Munro, " the Napier of those times ", scattered the united armies on the hard-fought field of Buxar.

Napier ( ; ) is a New Zealand city with a seaport, located in Hawke's Bay on the eastern coast of the North Island.

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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.

Napier quickly started work on newer designs, building on experience gained on the X style 16-cylinder, 1, 000 hp ( 746 kW ) Cub, used in the Blackburn Cubaroo single-engined bomber of the 1920s, and the resulting later 16-cylinder Rapier and 24-cylinder Dagger were both air-cooled H-block designs.

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.

Postwar, Continental bodies gained popularity, at least in Britain, as Belgium's D ' Ieteren Fréres became most associated with the company: their landaulette, on a chassis, was priced in Britain at ₤ 900, between Napier and Rolls-Royce.

The class which completed the course at Cochran Field was now split up, half were posted to Napier Field, Dothan, Alabama, to train on single engine planes, and the remainder were posted to twin-engine schools.

Like Cochran, Napier Field was a large permanent Air Corps Base and most of us were quite content to stay on the camp when we had time off.