In 1883 representations to the Napier Commission suggested the building of a replacement, but it was 1901 before the Congested Districts Board provided an engineer to enable one to be completed the following year.

The British were able to annex Sind and for his services, Hasan Ali Shah received an annual pension of £ 2, 000 from General Charles Napier, the British conqueror of Sind with whom he had a good relationship.

A species of Paranthropus, such as Paranthropus robustus, with its crested skull and bipedal gait, was suggested by primatologist John Napier and anthropologist Gordon Strasenburg as a possible candidate for Bigfoot's identity, despite the fact that fossils of Paranthropus are found only in Africa.

Except for the Antikythera mechanism, an " out of the time " astronomical device, development of computing tools arrived in the beginning of the 17th century: Geometric-military compass by Galileo, Logarithms and Napier Bones by Napier, slide rule by Edmund Gunter.

While producing the first logarithmic tables Napier needed to perform many multiplications, and it was at this point that he designed Napier's bones, an abacus-like device used for multiplication and division.

It appears that Robert Napier was responsible for this feature.

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

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

However, the monarch suddenly changed his attitude towards Rassam and he, too, was to become Tewodros ' prisoner and was held for two years until English and Indian troops under Robert Napier in the 1868 Expedition to Abyssinia resolved the standoff by defeating the warlord and his army.

Following General Sir Charles James Napier's 1843 conquest of Sindh, the satirical magazine Punch published a cartoon in which Napier dispatched to his commanders, " Peccavi ," Latin for " I have sinned " ( and a pun of " I have Sindh ").

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 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.

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.

Thousands of people flock to Napier every February for the Art Deco Weekend event, a celebration of its Art Deco heritage and history.

It was decided to place a planned town here, its streets and avenues were laid out, and the new town named for Sir Charles Napier, a military leader during the " Battle of Meeanee " fought in the province of Sindh, India.

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.

Centred 15 km north of Napier, it lasted for two and a half minutes and measured magnitude 7. 8 M < sub > s </ sub > ( magnitude 7. 9 M < sub > w </ sub >).

For the 1902 Gordon Bennett, three entrants ( the Charron-Girardot-Voigt, a Mors and a Panhard ) contested for France, with Edge in a Napier and two Wolseleys.

On 16 October that year, Napier announced a six-cylinder car for 1904, and became the first to make a commercially successful six, a " remarkably smooth and flexible " 18 hp ( 13 kW ) 301 cu in ( 4. 9 liter ) ( 101. 6 × 101. 6 mm, 4 × 4 in ) with three-speed gearbox and chain drive.

Edge's Napier launch won the inaugural British International Harmsworth Trophy for speedboats at Cork Harbour in Ireland, driven by Dorothy Levitt.

The 1905 boat Napier II set the world water speed record for a mile at almost 30 knots ( 56 km / h ).

Napier Deltic engine, cut away for display

During the war ( 1944 ) Napier were asked by the Royal Navy to supply a diesel engine for use in their patrol boats, but the Culverin's 720 hp ( 537 kW ) was not nearly enough for their needs.

In June 1833, the Liberals, still encircled at Porto, sent to the Algarve a force commanded by the Duke of Terceira supported by a naval squadron commanded by Charles Napier, using the alias ' Carlos de Ponza '.

But in the meantime Lisbon fell into the hands of the Duke of Terceira, who had left Oporto earlier in the Liberal fleet commanded by Charles John Napier, disembarked in the Algarve and marched across the Alentejo to defeat the Miguelist General Teles Jordão ( seizing the city on July 24 ).

Napier, after defeating a Miguelist fleet off Cape St. Vincent, joined the Duke of Terceira in the north, taking control of the Tagus.

The Duke of Wellington himself gave him much assistance, and handed over to him the whole of Joseph Bonaparte's correspondence which had been taken at the battle of Vittoria ; this was all in cipher, but Mrs Napier, with great patience, discovered the keys.

* Lady Louisa Conolly ( 1743 – 1821 ), wife of Tom Conolly and her sister Sarah Napier ( 1745 – 1826 ), wife of George Napier, both daughters of Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond.

Flying his flag in the frigate Rainha de Portugal 46, commanded by Captain F. G. MacDonough and with his stepson Charles Elers Napier as Chief of Staff, on 20 June he sailed from Oporto with his small fleet, transporting the Duke of Terceira and half the constitutional army to the Algarve so that they could open a second front in the south of the country and march on Lisbon.

In July 1833, having been transported with half his army to the Algarve by Admiral Charles Napier, he was victorious at the Battle of Almada which caused the Miguelites to abandon Lisbon, and with the Duke of Saldanha was in charge of the concluding campaign against Miguel's forces, and dealt them their final defeat at the Battle of Asseiceira.

The film starts off when his terribly upper class wife Leonie has given up on him and has just secured a divorce in order to marry Charles Napier, an art gallery owner of her own social standing.

The rooms have been restored to the year 1855 when its owner Sir Allan Napier MacNab, 1st Baronet, was at the height of his career.

Edge, driving Napier II, won the race for racers in the eight to 12 metres classes in 1 hour 5 minutes, he also finished second in Napier 1 as it was common practice to describe the owner and entrant as the driver, even if he did not take the wheel.

In about 1939-45 Triggs owned the 2, 000-acre Kyalla Park sheep farm and horse stud near Orange, which had the first electrified sheep shearing shed in Australia ( built in about 1910 by the previous owners, the Stuart family ), being slowly divided up and sold off by its subsequent owner, so that it is now around 150 acres and owned since about 1980 by the Napier family.

The higher education sector expanded in the second half of the 20th century, with four institutions being given university status in the 1960s ( Dundee, Heriot-Watt, Stirling and Strathclyde ) and five in the 1990s ( Abertay, Glasgow Caledonian, Napier, Paisley and Robert Gordon ).

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.

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.

In 1977, Napier was cast as frontier scout Luther Sprague in the six-episode NBC western television series, The Oregon Trail, with co-stars Rod Taylor, Andrew Stevens, Tony Becker, and Darleen Carr.

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.

* Alan Napier actor, best known for playing the butler Alfred Pennyworth in the 1960s Batman television series

In early 1988, Napier appeared on FOX Late Show talk show in a Batman reunion show, with the entire cast of the iconic camp TV series.

Napier is the step-grandfather of actor Brian Forster, best known as portraying ( the second ) Chris Partridge on the television series, The Partridge Family.

Starday also produced a series of classic anthologies of trucker records by various artists including Copas, Bond, Sovine, The Willis Brothers and bluegrass acts including Moore & Napier and Reno & Smiley.

Carson of Venus is the third book in the Venus series ( Sometimes called the " Carson Napier of Venus series ") by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

The series features hero Carson Napier, who engages in derring-do and the rescue of princesses amid vicious political struggles.

However, under pressure for his place in the side, Bell top-scored in England's win in Auckland in the third game of the series, with 73 runs, and then made 43 runs from 41 balls as England tied the fourth match, in Napier.

Napier began directing in 2000, and has directed movies in series such as There's Something About Jack, Jack Napier's Ridin ' Dirty, and Black Bottom Girls.

Burroughs followed up this first book with several more Barsoom stories, and another series that could be considered Sword & Planet, featuring as hero Carson Napier and his adventures on Venus.

* A reunion of the 1960s Batman TV series cast ( Adam West, Burt Ward, Frank Gorshin, Julie Newmar, Yvonne Craig, Alan Napier, and Eartha Kitt ) aired on April 28.