The modern steam turbine was invented in 1884 by Sir Charles Parsons, whose first model was connected to a dynamo that generated 7. 5 kW ( 10 hp ) of electricity.

** Kelly Parsons, American actress and model

Working in the United States, Talcott Parsons developed a model of the nuclear family in 1955, which at that place and time was the prevalent family structure.

However Parsons thought that the issues of conflict and cooperation were very much intertwined and sought to account for both in his model 2005: 103.

Kelly Brook ( born Kelly Ann Parsons ; ) is an English model, actress, entrepreneur, and television presenter.

: For the British model born Kelly Parsons, see Kelly Brook.

Talcott Parsons, a major figure in sociology, who was the main originator of action theory in the early 20th century, based his sociological theory of action system is build up around a general theory of society, which is codified within a cybernetic model featuring four functional imperatives: adaptation, goal-attainment, integration, and pattern maintenance.

Karyn Parsons ( born October 8, 1966 ) is an American television and film actress and model best known for the role of Hilary Banks on the NBC sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.

Several defendants in the Summerdale police burglary trial made statements indicating their guilt at the time of their arrest, Judge James B. Parsons was told in Criminal court yesterday.

The Alan Parsons Project was an English progressive rock band, active between 1975 and 1990, consisting of singer Eric Woolfson and keyboardist Alan Parsons surrounded by a varying number of session musicians.

Behind the revolving lineup and the regular sidemen, the true core of the Project was the duo of Parsons and Woolfson.

Parsons was a successful producer and accomplished engineer.

Parsons would produce and engineer songs written by the two, and the Alan Parsons Project was born.

The song " The Raven " featured lead vocals by the actor Leonard Whiting, and, according to the 2007 remastered album liner notes, was the first rock song to use a digital vocoder, with Alan Parsons speaking lyrics through it.

Although the studio version of Freudiana was produced by Parsons ( and featured the regular Project backing musicians, making it an ' unofficial ' Project album ), it was primarily Woolfson's idea to turn it into a musical.

In 2010 Eye to Eye: Alan Parsons Project Live in Madrid was released on CD.

Most of the Project's titles, especially the early work, share common traits ( likely influenced by Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, on which Parsons was the audio engineer in 1973 ).

Woolfson sang lead on many of the group's hits ( including " Time " and " Eye in the Sky ") and the record company pressured Parsons to use him more, but Parsons preferred " real " singers, which Woolfson admitted he was not.

This score was partly in the Project style, recorded by most of the Project regulars, and produced and engineered by Parsons.

This was because Woolfson and Parsons saw themselves mainly in the roles of writing and production, and also because of the technical difficulties of reproducing on stage the complex instrumentation used in the studio.

The one occasion where the band was introduced as " The Alan Parsons Project " in a live performance was at Night of the Proms 1990 ( at the time of the group's break-up ), featuring all Project regulars except Woolfson who was present but behind the scenes, while Parsons stayed at the mixer except during the last song, where he played acoustic guitar.

It was not presented in the United States until 1970, when a short-lived April production at the Phyllis Anderson Theatre off Broadway starred Barbara Harris as Jenny and Estelle Parsons as Begbick.

The project was led by Dr Jeff Peakall and Dr Daniel Parsons at the University of Leeds in collaboration with the University of Southampton, Memorial University ( Newfoundland, Canada ), and the Institute of Marine Sciences ( Izmir, Turkey ).

" Smile ", composed originally for Modern Times ( 1936 ) and later set to lyrics by John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons, was a hit for Nat King Cole in 1954.

GP, released in 1973, used the guitar-playing of James Burton ( sideman to Elvis Presley and Ricky Nelson ), and featured new songs from a creatively revitalized Parsons such as " Big Mouth Blues " and " Kiss the Children ," as well as a cover of Tompall Glaser's " Streets of Baltimore ".

Four Parsons turbines were used, improving speed to 27 knots and reducing weight.

The term originates from Bertalanffy's general system theory ( GST ) and is used in later efforts in other fields, such as the action theory of Talcott Parsons and the system-theory of Niklas Luhmann.

In the case of steam turbines, such as would be used for marine applications or for land-based electricity generation, a Parsons type reaction turbine would require approximately double the number of blade rows as a de Laval type impulse turbine, for the same degree of thermal energy conversion.

Another of the early songs to feature a vocoder was " The Raven " on the 1976 album Tales of Mystery and Imagination by progressive rock band The Alan Parsons Project ; the vocoder also was used on later albums such as I Robot.

Also belonging to the more archaic stratum of motets is Libera me Domine ( a5 ), a cantus firmus setting of the ninth responsory at Matins for the Office for the Dead, which takes its point of departure from the setting by Robert Parsons, while Miserere mihi ( a6 ), a setting of a Compline antiphon often used by Tudor composers for didactic cantus firmus exercises, incorporates a four-in-two canon.

* 1895: Three 4-ton 100 kW Parsons radial flow generators were installed in Cambridge Power Station, and used to power the first electric street lighting scheme in the city.

* Parsons code, a system of notation used to identify a musical work

The Commonwealth will be seeking over $ 150 million from project manager Bechtel / Parsons Brinckerhoff, builder Modern Continental Construction Co. and the manufacturer of the epoxy used to hold the ceiling bolts.

The cimbalom was used by Alan Parsons on his " I Robot " and " Tales of Mystery and Imagination " albums and is included in the guest musician acknowledgments.

The informal bar at the Fort Sill Officers ' Open Mess used to be known as Fiddler's Green and it is the name of the stable and pasture used by Parsons Mounted Cavalry, a cadet group at Texas A & M University in College Station, Texas, and that of the bar at the Leaders Club in Fort Knox, Kentucky.

Newspaper columnists of the 1930s and 1940s, such as Franklin Pierce Adams ( aka FPA ), Nick Kenny, John Crosby, Jimmie Fidler, Louella Parsons, Drew Pearson, Ed Sullivan and Walter Winchell, achieved a celebrity status and used their syndicated columns as a springboard to move into radio and television.

Gram Parsons, deceased American singer / songwriter, formerly of The Flying Burrito Brothers, used to wear a Nudie jacket, created by Manual Cuevas, which contained graphic representations of Tuinal capsules.

Theoretical concerns, influences and resources used in the development of ethnomethodology include: traditional sociological concerns, especially the Parsonian Parsons, " Problem of Order "; traditional sociological theory and methods, primarily Parsons, Emile Durkheim, and Max Weber ; Aron Gurwitsch's phenomenological field theory of consciousness / Gestalt Psychology ; the Transcendental Phenomenology of Edmund Husserl ; Alfred Schutz's Phenomenology of the Natural Attitude ; Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of embodiment, Martin Heidegger's phenomenology of being / Existential Phenomenology ; and Ludwig Wittgenstein's investigations regarding ordinary language use ( Heritage: 1986 ; Garfinkel: 2002 ).

The VCS3 was quite popular among progressive rock bands and was used on recordings by The Alan Parsons Project, Jean Michel Jarre, Hawkwind, Brian Eno ( with Roxy Music ), King Crimson, The Who, Gong, and Pink Floyd, among many others.

Steel engraving of Albert R. Parsons used as a frontis piece for his 1889 memoir.

Extended guitar solos are sometimes used as a song's outro, such as Radiohead's " Paranoid Android ", Lynyrd Skynyrd's " Free Bird ", Pink Floyd's " Comfortably Numb ", Guns N ' Roses ' " November Rain ", Metallica's " Fade to Black ", Led Zeppelin's " Black Dog ", The Beatles ' " While My Guitar Gently Weeps ", The Rolling Stones ' " Sympathy for the Devil ", Pearl Jam's " Alive ", Red Hot Chili Peppers ' " Dani California ", Cream's " White Room ", AC / DC's " Let There Be Rock ", Outlaws ' " Green Grass and High Tides ", The Alan Parsons Project's " Eye in the Sky " and Eagles ' " Hotel California ".

When Parsons saw what Stulen was doing with the punched card machines, he asked Stulen if they could be used to generate an outline with 200 points instead of the 17 they were given, and offset each point by the radius of a mill cutting tool.

Harvard sociologist Talcott Parsons used the word gloss to describe how the mind perceives reality.

Other sources are when the swamp was to be replaced with Wendy's " Sweet Dream Valley ", Mr. Parsons pays a visit to Mr. Winkle reminding him " you can take the man out of the swamp but you can't take the swamp out of the man ", reminding him they used to race with his swamp name " Eely ".

The engineers of the construction consortium PBTB ( Parsons Brinckerhoff-Tudor-Bechtel ) used the best estimates of ground motion available at the time, now known to be insufficient given modern computational analysis methods and geotechnical knowledge.