On the morning following the Pratt Hall meeting the editor of the Providence Daily Journal wrote that although the meeting was milder and less extreme than those held in other areas for similar purposes, it could have been avoided completely.

A check for $4,177.37 representing the last payment of a $50,000 federal grant to Rhode Island Hospital was presented to the hospital administrator, Oliver G. Pratt, yesterday by Governor Notte.

LDS Apostle Orson Pratt declared that " Ahman ", part of the name of the settlement " Adam-ondi-Ahman " in Daviess County, Missouri, was the name of God in the Adamic language.

The elite Legend status was bestowed on 12 members of the Hall of Fame in 1996: Ron Barassi, Haydn Bunton Senior, Roy Cazaly, John Coleman, Jack Dyer, Polly Farmer, Leigh Matthews, John Nicholls, Bob Pratt, Dick Reynolds, Bob Skilton and Ted Whitten ( see above list for further details ).

The Deseret alphabet was developed primarily by a committee made up of the university's board of regents and church leaders Parley P. Pratt and Heber C. Kimball.

) Assistant Church Historian, Andrew Jenson, also reported that the alphabet was produced by a committee composed of Orson Pratt, Parley P. Pratt, Wilford Woodruff, George D. Watt, Robert L. Campbell, and others.

Originally dealing in whale oil which was widely used for illumination, Charles Pratt ( 1830 – 1891 ) of Massachusetts was an early pioneer of the natural oil industry in the United States.

His first job was as a clerk in the insurance brokerage firm Pratt & Sons in 1959.

Kirby enrolled at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, at what he said was age 14, leaving after a week.

" I wasn't the kind of student that Pratt was looking for.

Henry Clay Folger was head of the company until 1923, when he was succeeded by Herbert L. Pratt.

She added that it was through her friends and their Pratt professors that she learned much of her own artistic skills, making the honour from the institute particularly poignant for Smith 43 years later.

One of the most advanced reciprocating engines ever made was the 28-cylinder, Pratt & Whitney R-4360 " Wasp Major " radial engine.

In the resulting case, Entick v. Carrington ( 1765 ), Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden ruled that the search and seizure was unlawful as the warrant authorized the seizure of all of Entick's papers, not just the criminal ones and the warrant lacked probable cause to even justify the search.

The White House remained accessible in other ways ; President Abraham Lincoln complained that he was constantly beleaguered by job seekers waiting to ask him for political appointments or other favors, or eccentric dispensers of advice like “ General ” Daniel Pratt, as he began the business day.

Jack Coggins was invited by Pratt to participate, and recalled that Pratt's game involved dozens of tiny wooden ships — built to a scale of about one inch to 50 feet — spread over the living room floor of his apartment.

The game was respected by the Naval War College and serving naval officers regularly participated in games For an evaluation of the Fletcher Pratt Game versus reality see Chapter 10 of The Fletcher Pratt Naval Wargame book.

: I first saw the 1932 Tod Browning film Freaks in 1963 at a screening at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, where I was attending art school.

The " Fourth Nephi " part of the title was added by Orson Pratt, in 1879.

Legislation to begin construction of the Pacific Railroad ( called the Memorial of Asa Whitney ) was first introduced to Congress by Representative Zadock Pratt.

The contractor for the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters was Morton Thiokol ( now part of Alliant Techsystems ), for the external tank, Martin Marietta ( now Lockheed Martin ), and for the Space Shuttle main engines, Rocketdyne ( now Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, part of United Technologies ).

Pratt & Whitney's aircraft engines are widely used in both civil aviation ( especially airlines ) and military aviation.

Pratt & Whitney's Military Engines power 27 air forces around the globe, with nearly 11, 000 military engines in service with 23 customers in 22 nations.

Pratt & Whitney military engines include the F135 for the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter ( JSF ), the F119 for the F-22 Raptor, the F100 family that powers the F-15 Eagle and F-16 Falcon, the F117 for the C-17 Globemaster III, the J52 for the EA-6B Prowler, the TF33 powering E-3 AWACS, E-8 Joint STARS, B-52, and KC-135 aircraft, and the TF30 for the F-111.

In addition, Pratt & Whitney offers a global network of maintenance, repair, and overhaul facilities and military aviation service centers focused on maintaining engine readiness for their customers.

Pratt & Whitney Canada ( PWC ), originally Canadian Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company, and later United Aircraft of Canada, provides a large range of products, including turbofan, turboprop and turboshaft engines targeted for the regional, business, utility and military aircraft and helicopter markets.

* Pratt & Whitney PW2000-turbofan engine, also known by the military designation F117.

The gold arrow, according to Pratt, points towards a " brighter future "; the arrow becomes a sword, honouring the sacrifices of Newfoundlanders in military service when the flag is draped as a vertical banner.

It currently manufactures parts and performs maintenance, repair and overhaul operations on jet, turbo shaft and turboprop engines under license from Rolls-Royce ( UK ) and Honeywell ( USA ); it also holds Long Term Agreements from other Original Equipment Manufacturers, including Pratt & Whitney, Pratt & Whitney Canada and Micro turbo, whose engines power civil and military aircraft and helicopters.

The experiments led to Pratt & Whitney F100 and Pratt & Whitney PW2000 being the first military and civil engines, respectively, fitted with FADEC, and later the Pratt & Whitney PW4000 as the first commercial " dual FADEC " engine.

The United Aircraft and Transport Corporation was formed in 1929, when William Boeing of the Boeing firms teamed up with Frederick Rentschler of Pratt & Whitney to form a large, amalgamated firm, uniting business interests in all aspects of aviation — a combination of aircraft engine and airframe manufacturer and airline business, to serve all aviation markets, both civil aviation ( cargo, passenger, private, air mail ) and military aviation.

* The Boeing 707-220, which was a 707-120 airframe fitted with more powerful Pratt & Whitney JT4A engines, civilian versions of the military J75.

Lewis remained Gloucester's favourite attendant because, unlike Pratt, he was knowledgeable of military matters and could therefore help him with his " Horse Guards ".

: Nearly 65, 000 people are buried here, including the poet Sydney Lanier, philanthropists Johns Hopkins and Enoch Pratt, Napoleon Bonaparte's sister-in-law Betsy Patterson, John Wilkes Booth, and numerous military, political and business leaders.

On the military side of the business, the TFX joint-procurement program led to the General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark powered by the Pratt & Whitney TF30.

Lieut Richard Henry Pratt, founder and superintendent of Carlisle Indian School, in military uniform, 1879.

After producing a prototype he went to the Pratt and Whitney company, who after a year of development produced a military version of the weapon.

Despite the opposition of the city newspapers, the Pratt Hall meeting `` brought together a very respectable audience, composed in part of those who had been distinguished for years for their radical views upon the subject of slavery, of many of our colored citizens, and of those who were attracted to the place by the novelty of such a gathering ''.

In the 1960s, Pratt and Whitney licensed Bacon's U. S. patents for use in the U. S. space program to supply electricity and drinking water ( hydrogen and oxygen being readily available from the spacecraft tanks ).

A Pratt & Whitney F100 turbofan engine for the F-15 Eagle being tested in the hush house at Florida Air National Guard base.

Caribbean governments have been coming under increased pressure from their electorates to devise ways to override previous rulings by the JCPC such as: Earl Pratt and Ivan Morgan v The Attorney General for Jamaica ( 1993 ) Jeffrey Joseph v The Queen for Barbados ( 2002 ), and Charles Matthews v The State of Trinidad & Tobago ( 2004 ), all of which are Privy Council judgments concerning the death penalty in the Caribbean region.

* Wiles, Gary J .; Worthington, David J .; Beck, Robert E. Jr .; Pratt, H. Douglas ; Aguon, Celestino F. & Pyle, Robert L. ( 2000 ): Noteworthy bird records for Micronesia, with a summary of raptor sightings in the Mariana Islands, 1988-1999.

* Wiles, Gary J .; Johnson, Nathan C .; de Cruz, Justine B .; Dutson, Guy ; Camacho, Vicente A .; Kepler, Angela Kay ; Vice, Daniel S .; Garrett, Kimball L .; Kessler, Curt C. & Pratt, H. Douglas ( 2004 ): New and Noteworthy Bird Records for Micronesia, 1986 – 2003.

Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne have been commissioned by DARPA to develop a diesel Wankel engine for use in a prototype VTOL flying car called the " Transformer ".

An October 28, 2010 patent from Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, describes a Wankel engine superficially similar to Rolls-Royce's earlier prototype that required an external air compressor to achieve high enough compression for diesel-cycle combustion.

In 1944, Anthony E. Pratt, an English solicitor's clerk, filed for a patent of his invention of a murder / mystery-themed game, originally named " Murder!

Shortly thereafter, Pratt and his wife presented the game to Waddingtons's executive, Norman Watson, who immediately purchased the game and provided its trademark name of " Cluedo " ( a play on " clue " and " Ludo "; ludo is Latin for I play ).

In 1865, John Pratt, of Centre, Alabama, built a machine called the Pterotype which appeared in an 1867 Scientific American article A modern description of the examination procedure is laid out in ASTM Standard E2494-08 ( Standard Guide for Examination of Typewritten Items ).

De Camp was best known for his light fantasy, particularly the " Harold Shea " series and " Gavagan's Bar " series, both written in collaboration with his longtime friend Fletcher Pratt.

Some later biplanes replaced the Pratt truss with a Warren truss which reduced the drag associated with the struts, however it wasn't enough to keep it competitive with cantilever monoplanes which superseded it for most purposes in the late 1930s.