The three cup anemometer developed by the Canadian John Patterson in 1926 and subsequent cup improvements by Brevoort & Joiner of the USA in 1935 led to a cupwheel design which was linear and had an error of less than 3 % up to.

Patterson found that each cup produced maximum torque when it was at 45 degrees to the wind flow.

Patterson claimed to have screened the film for unnamed technicians " in the special effects department at Universal Studios in Hollywood ... Their conclusion was: ' We could try ( faking it ), but we would have to create a completely new system of artificial muscles and find an actor who could be trained to walk like that.

Russell Patterson and Carolyn Wells ' New Adventures of Flossy Frills was a continuing strip series seen on Sunday magazine covers.

Park quit in 1998, after deciding that he had done what he intended to do ; he maintained that his biggest achievement was the introduction of Hayley Patterson ( Julie Hesmondhalgh ), the first transsexual character in a British soap.

Manley resigned for health reasons in 1992 and was succeeded as leader of the PNP by Percival Patterson.

In April 2001, Prime Minister Patterson and other Caribbean leaders met with President George W. Bush during the Summit of the Americas in Quebec, Canada, at which a " Third Border Initiative " was launched to deepen U. S. cooperation with Caribbean nations and enhance economic development and integration of the Caribbean nations.

2001 marked his first post-Seinfeld return to prime-time television: the heavily promoted but short-lived ABC sitcom Bob Patterson ( which was canceled after just 5 episodes ).

A mix tape for Mixmag shared with Alex Patterson was also released as a CD.

Goldberg was elected president with Russell Patterson as vice president, C. D. Russell as secretary and Milton Caniff, treasurer.

The first British governor of St. John's Island, Walter Patterson, was appointed in 1769.

Walter Patterson's brother, John Patterson, one of the original grantees of land on the island, was a temporarily exiled Loyalist and led efforts to persuade others to come.

The Patterson-Gimlin film ( also referred to as simply the Patterson film ) is a famous short motion picture of an unidentified subject the film makers purported to be a " Bigfoot ", that was supposedly filmed on October 20, 1967, by Roger Patterson ( February 14, 1926 – January 15, 1972 ) and Robert Gimlin ( October 18, 1931 ) on the Klamath River outside of Orleans, California.

Pat Mason, Glen Koelling, Bob Swanson and Vilma Radford claimed Patterson never repaid loans they made to him for a bigfoot movie Roger was planning.

Since the film was to be a pseudo-documentary Patterson and Gimlin would have needed actors.

This find was reported to Patterson soon thereafter by local resident Al Hodgson.

This charge was ultimately dismissed after Patterson returned the camera in working order.

Patterson and Gimlin by their tales were supposedly the only witnesses to their brief encounter with what they claimed was a Sasquatch.

Patterson estimated he was about away from the creature at his closest.

) The film shows what Patterson and Gimlin claimed was a large, hairy bipedal apelike figure with short black hair covering most of its body, including the figure's prominent breasts.

It was then incorporated as the centerpiece of the documentary film that Patterson had set out to make in the first place.

Though there was little scientific interest in the film, Patterson was still able to capitalize on it.

While Patterson sought publicity, Gimlin was conspicuous by his absence.

In 1924, owner Frank McNeil sold the team back to Hughitt and Warren D. Patterson, who immediately changed the team name to Bisons ( a stock name for Buffalo sports teams ) and signed several players ( Pete Calac, Benny Boynton and Jim Ailinger being among them ) to make another run at the title.

Zahorian stated that he received a call from Patterson about a possible criminal investigation, and after their conversation, he immediately brought all documents related to the WWF to a lawyer.

The ship was originally captained by Francis Sheppherd ; both Patterson and Shepphard immediately registered the ship in the New York Custom House ; having paid $ 2, 000 to be bonded, however, no sureties were listed.

The woman is Marion Dixon, an American circus artist who, after giving birth to a black baby ( played by Jim Patterson ), immediately becomes a victim of racism in the United States.

Patterson was immediately expelled from the society and all records bearing his name were deleted.

Goldstein was criticized for not immediately stopping the match and allowing Johansson to knock Patterson down six more times before ultimately awarding the bout to Johansson.

Patterson failed to immediately act on these orders, was outmaneuvered after the Battle of Hoke's Run, and a Confederate army at Winchester, Virginia, under Brig.

Witnesses confirmed that Patterson was not in Blyth ’ s tent when the shooting took place, and that it was in fact Blyth ’ s wife who was with him at the time, as she was reported as running ( screaming ) from the tent immediately following the shooting.

Accompanied by her daughter Valmai in America and Sir Les Patterson in the UK, Dame Edna again toured with what was declared My First Last Tour.

* Orange County: John Butler, named county record taker, seat declared vacant April 27, 1778 ; Thomas Burke elected to replace Butler, took office August 8, resigned August 18 when elected to Continental Congress ; Mark Patterson elected to replace Burke, took office January 20, 1779

Huband declared himself a candidate when the central Winnipeg seat of Crescentwood became vacant in early 1975, after the one-vote victory of NDP MLA Harvey Patterson in the 1973 election was overturned.

Patterson was convicted a year later of violating the Smith Act and the Attorney General Herbert Brownell, Jr. declared the CRC to be a subversive organization in 1954.

The 1787 dismissal of Governor Patterson and his recall to London in 1789 dampened his brother's efforts, leading John to focus on his interests in the United States ( one of John's sons, Commodore Daniel Patterson, became a noted United States Navy hero, and John's grandsons, Rear Admiral Thomas H. Patterson and Lt. Carlile Pollock Patterson USN, achieved success ).

Another folk hero in Australian folklore is Charlie McKeahnie, The Man from Snowy River – A hero ( created by author Banjo Patterson ) whose bravery, adaptability, and risk-taking could epitomise the new Australian spirit.

Patterson was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the second son of Commodore Daniel Todd Patterson, a War of 1812 U. S. Navy hero, and George Ann Pollock.

Mrs. Peck, later joined by the commission's vice-chairman, Mrs. Lee Patterson, took Harvey to task for comments he had made to the North Portland Rotary Club Tuesday.

* Autocorrelation in space rather than time, via the Patterson function, is used by X-ray diffractionists to help recover the " Fourier phase information " on atom positions not available through diffraction alone.

In December of that year, allegations by Arkansas state troopers Larry Patterson and Roger Perry were first reported by David Brock in the American Spectator.

He also appeared in a documentary of him, The Gentleman Tramp ( 1975 ), directed by Richard Patterson.

In 1884 Eckert sold the company to John H. Patterson, who renamed the company the National Cash Register Company and improved the cash register by adding a paper roll to record sales transactions, thereby creating the receipt.

Other rock fanzines of this period include Flash, 1972, edited by Mark Shipper, Eurock Magazine ( 1973 – 1993 ) edited by Archie Patterson and Bam Balam, written and published by Brian Hogg in East Lothian, Scotland, beginning in 1974, and in the mid-1970s, Back Door Man and denim delinquent.

Following a 2006 season in which they missed the playoffs, Lamar Hunt sold the club in August 2006 to OnGoal, LLC, a six-man ownership group led by Cerner Corporation co-founders Neal Patterson and Cliff Illig, a local group committed to keeping the Wizards in Kansas City.

kIPS is also a common joke name for 16 bit microprocessor designs developed in undergraduate computer engineering courses that use the text Computer Organization and Design by Patterson and Hennessy ( ISBN 1-55860-428-6 ), which explains computer architecture concepts in terms of the MIPS architecture.

While recuperating at Youpon Dunes, a home owned by Elizabeth Patterson, in Myrtle Beach, he worked on the charter for a group of Sufis, which he named Sufism Reoriented.

Both Patterson and Gimlin have consistently dismissed allegations that they had hoaxed the footage by filming a man wearing a costume.

Patterson said he became interested in Bigfoot after reading an article about the creature by Ivan Sanderson in True magazine in December 1959.

" It did, however, also include 20 pages of previously unpublished interviews and letters, 17 drawings by Patterson of the encounters described in the text, 5 hand-drawn maps ( rare in subsequent Bigfoot books ), and almost 20 photos and illustrations from other sources.

In an article in Argosy magazine, Ivan T. Sanderson gave the time of the encounter as 3: 30 p. m., which differed from the 1: 30 p. m. time in other articles and in interviews by Patterson and Gimlin.

In a different context, Long argues, these discrepancies would probably be considered minor, but given the extraordinary claims made by Patterson and Gimlin, any apparent disagreements in perception or memory are worth noting.