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Elihu Thomson Papers , American Philosophical Society Thomson's many achievements in the development of late 19th and early 20th century technology as well as his involvement in the growth of the Thomson-Houston companies and the General Electric Company are the primary subjects of this collection. The Thomson-Houston Electric Company merged with the Edison Electric Company of Schenectady, New York to form the General Electric Company in 1892. The Thomson Papers, consisting mainly of documents created by and retained by Thomson, must also be considered somewhat of an "artificial" collection, in that it was augmented after Thomson's death by serious collecting efforts on the part of Thomson's widow, his colleagues, and staff members at the American Philosophical Society Library. www.amphilsoc.org /library/mole/t/thomson.htm

British Thomson-Houston - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia British Thomson-Houston played a major role in the development of the jet engine — Frank Whittle 's Power Jets company built the world's first prototype jet engine at the BTH works in Rugby in 1937. The American firm became Thomson-Houston in 1883, Laing, Wharton and Down became part of British Thomson-Houston when it was formed in May 1896. BTH became mainly associated with Rugby, Warwickshire, due to its good accessibility by rail and a local coal supply. www.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_Thomson-Houston

List of years in aviation British Army balloons are taken to Sudan by the expeditionary force headed there. British Army balloons are taken on the expedition to Bechuanaland in South Africa. British Airways formed as a result of merger. www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/list_of_years_in_aviation

Paxman History Pages - Paxman and Diesel Rail Traction British Railways was sufficiently impressed by the performance of the prototype to order 54 more in 1955 as part of the British Railways 1955 Modernisation Plan. The suggestion that British Rail participate in a trial of the new VP185 engine in the IC125 was first mooted in January 1991 and a formal agreement for the trial was signed in May 1993. British Rail withdrew them from service in 1972 to simplify maintenance as they were not a standard design. www.nelmes.fsnet.co.uk /paxman/paxrailt.htm

BBC The BBC was founded as the British Broadcasting Company in 1922 by a consortium including Marconi, GEC, British Thomson Houston, Metropolitan Vickers, Western Electric and the Radio Communication Company. The fees are to ensure that the BBC is sufficiently funded to provide for the British public high quality and diverse media content designed to " educate, inform and entertain " as per the remit of its charter. BBC2 (as it was originally spelled) was the first British channel to use UHF and 625-line pictures, giving higher definition than the existing VHF 405-line system. www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/b/bb/bbc.html

AEI. Who is AEI? What is AEI? Where is AEI? Definition of AEI. Meaning of AEI. Associated Electrical Industries (AEI) was a British engineering company formed in 1959 by the merger of the British Thomson-Houston Company (BTH) and Metropolitan Vickers. www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/AEI

British Locomotives Meanwhile, the BTH (British Thomson Houston) side of AEI had also developed a relationship with Sulzer in connection with the supply of the power equipment for the BR-built 24 and 25 classes. The BRCW/Sulzer/CP partnership also supplied quite a few of BR’s (British Railways) first-generation diesel fleet, namely the 26 and 33 classes. BTH had used a similar design for the "Explorer" prototype, no doubt having access through the loose GE (General Electric)/BTH/Alsthom association. homepage.ntlworld.com /mark.dean2/zambesi-type.htm

Metrovick In 1928, Metrovick merged with British Thomson Houston (BTH) who were involved in broadly the same activities. Metrovick produced the first flying British axial compressor engine. BTH were subcontracted by Power Jets and Frank Whittle to manufacture components for the worlds first jet engine. www.aoxj32.dsl.pipex.com /NewFiles/Metrovick.html

British Thomson-Houston - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia British Thomson-Houston (BTH) was a British engineering and heavy industrial company, known primarily for their electrical systems and steam turbines. British Thomson-Houston played a major role in the development of the jet engine—Frank Whittle's Power Jets company built the world's first prototype jet engine at the BTH works in Rugby in 1937. However the company directors seemed skeptical of the design and offered little assistance, eventually deciding in 1940 that they were not really interested in a production role due to their commitment to electrical equipment. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_Thomson-Houston   (737 words)

British broadcasting company Directory The BBC was founded as the British Broadcasting Company in 1922 by a consortium includingMarconi, GEC, British Thomson Houston, Metropolitan Vickers, Western... On October 18, 1922, the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) was set up by a consortiumof radio receiver manufacturers (Western Electric, Marconi, General... British Broadcasting Company cartoons from the CartoonStock directory- the world's largest on-line collection of cartoons. www.broadcastingnews.it /web_category_8.html   (737 words)

Holography - Art History Online Reference and Guide The discovery was an unexpected result of research into improving electron microscopes at the British Thomson-Houston Company in Rugby, England, but the field did not really advance until the invention of the laser in 1960. Holography was invented in 1947 by Hungarian physicist Dennis Gabor ( 1900 - 1979), for which he received the Nobel Prize in physics in 1971. www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Hologram   (737 words)

Engineering passed MV merged with British Thomson Houston (BTH) in 1928 but shortly afterwards the new company was amalgamated into Associated Electrical Industries Limited (AEI) and this resulted in a long history of rivalry between the two firms. On the 1st January 1960 BTH and Metropolitan Vickers were merged into AEI, and the BTH and MV names were lost forever in the world of electrical engineering. Leading up to the Second World War, BTH was heavily involved in jet engine design and when the war began it manufactured magnetos, compressors, switchgear and was involved in the development of radar. www.the-lawrences.com /engineering.htm   (737 words)

The Industrial History of Rugby The British Thomson-Houston Co. was formed in 1894 to use in the U.K the patents of what became General Electric of the U.S.A. By 1899 they wanted a factory site and chose Rugby. The British Thomson-Houston Company built their works in Mill Road in 1902 making electric motors and generators. At some time or other practically every type of electric powered device was produced by BTH at Rugby. users.argonet.co.uk /users/cjhicks/indus.html   (737 words)

HISTORY OF AEI One of Pole's primary concerns was the competition between British Thomson-Houston and Metropolitan Vickers. However the continuing competition within AEI was underlined by the fact that B.T.H. and Metrovick published separate books detailing their contribution to the war effort. AEI’s technical excellence was highlighted in 1935 as Metrovick and B.T.H. became the first two firms in the world to construct jet engines (independently from each other). web.ukonline.co.uk /freshwater/histaei.htm   (737 words)

The General Electric Company Gecko (layout Engine) British Thomson-Houston British Thomson-Houston (BTH) was a British Engineering company, founded in 1894 to manufacture in the UK, under licence, products patented by an American company (which was to become General Electric). The company was formed on April 29, 1977 from British Aircraft Corporation, Hawker Siddeley Aviation, Hawker Siddeley Dynamics and Scottish Aviation. Now BAE Systems Marine Ltd, VSEL was acquired during the merger of British Aerospace and GEC's defence business. www.masterliness.com /a/GEC.htm   (737 words)

Edwin W. Rice, Jr. The Edison Exploratorium He was a director of the General Electric Company, the International General Electric Company, Electric Bond and Share Company, British Thomson-Houston Company, Ltd., The Schenectady Trust Company, the Detroit Edison Company and for many years of the Radio Corporation of America. In 1883 he went with Thomson to Lynn, Massachusetts, upon the organization of the Thomson-Houston Company, when a majority interest of the American Electric Company was purchased by the former concern. He went to New Britain, Connecticut and for three years was with Thomson in the American Electric Company there and in Philadelphia, engaged in the manufacture of arc lamps and dynamos. www.edisonexploratorium.org /rice.html   (737 words)

BTH (B.T.H.), British Thomson-Houston Co Radio Catalogue Radio Catalogue for the radio maker BTH (B.T.H.), British Thomson-Houston Co, Ltd. BTH Bijou Type C, Form BB Broadcast (MW) and L... Here you view a Radio Catalogue for the selected Maker/Brand on ONE page - and may use «Ctrl-F» to find models - but we recommend the normal search because the sorting here is by computer without "human touch". www.radiomuseum.org /m/bth_gb_en_1.html   (737 words)

Mister Transistor's Historic Semiconductors British Thomson-Houston(BTH) and Associated Electrical Industries(AEI) were two heavy electrical industry companies who issued a joint range of transistors in the late 1950's. Bradley's interesting book "British Transistor Manual" from 1958 lists as obsolete the BTH types JT1A, JT2A and JT3A. Some part numbers, for instance the GT41 in the middle, were issued by both AEI and BTH. ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/Andrew_Wylie/bthaei.HTM   (737 words)

Paxman History - Diesels for the World's Railways (1957) Chris mentioned that one of his main sources of information on the North British locomotives was "Giants of Steam - The Full Story of the North British Locomotive Co. Ltd", by Roger P Bradley, published by OPC in 1995. NOTE: The 5' 6" gauge locomotives were built by the North British Locomotive Company and shipped to Colombo during the summer and autumn of 1951. The British Railways Modernisation Plan for dieselisation and electrification of its network was not published until January 1955. www.nelmes.fsnet.co.uk /paxman/worldrly.htm   (737 words)

Articles - Rugby, Warwickshire GEC and AEI (earlier British Thomson-Houston or BTH)) works which used to dominate employment in the town. 1937 Frank Whittle built the world's first prototype jet engine at the British Thomson-Houston works in Rugby, and between 1936-41 based himself at Brownsover Hall on the outskirts of the town, where he designed and developed early prototype engines. Much of his work was also carried out at nearby Lutterworth. www.kamero.net /articles/Rugby,_Warwickshire   (737 words)

Elihu Thomson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia British Thomson-Houston Company (BTH), and the French companies Thomson and Alstom. Elihu Thomson ( March 29, 1853 - March 13, 1937) was an In 1879 he established, with Edwin J. Houston, the en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elihu_Thomson   (737 words)

BTH Works These pages contain photographs of the British Thomson Houston Works that stretched between Mill Road, Leicester Road, Boughton Road and the London to Birmingham main railway line. The first had British Thomson Houston in full across both buildings, hence the very large framework. In the 1930's the buildings on the left produced domestic white goods, in the middle was the foundry and the Control Gear factory was in the last building. www.argonet.co.uk /education/cjhicks/bth/bth.html   (737 words)

British Thomson-Houston - Wikipedia Wähle „ British Thomson-Houston suchen “ um nach British Thomson-Houston zu suchen. Falls Du diese Seite soeben erstellt hast, kann es sein, dass die Aktualisierung der Datenbank verzögert wurde. de.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_Thomson-Houston   (737 words)

Lutterworth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lutterworth's other main claim to fame is that Frank Whittle, inventor of the jet engine, developed some of the world's first jet engines at the British Thomson-Houston works in Lutterworth, and in nearby Rugby, during the late 1930s and the The engine for the UK's first jet aeroplane the en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lutterworth   (737 words)

Plymouth, Broadcasting (British Broadcasting Company - Station 5PY) The British Broadcasting Company was founded on October 18th 1922 by a consortium of business that included British Thomson Houston, the General Electric Company, Marconi, Metropolitan Vickers, the Radio Communication Company and Western Electric. Plymouth, Broadcasting (British Broadcasting Company - Station 5PY) The aim of the Company was to provide a national broadcasting service by establishing a network of radio stations across the country. www.plymouthdata.info /Broadcasting-5PY.htm   (737 words)

A collection level description of the papers of Arthur Primrose Young Arthur Primrose Young (1885-1977) was associated throughout his working life with British Thomson-Houston, the electrical equipment manufacturers of Coventry and Rugby, from which concern he retired as Works Manager in 1945. During his career he was works manager at British Thomson-Houston, Coventry 1921-8, and at British Thomson-Houston, Rugby, 1929-45. He was a founder member of the British Works Management Association and lectured and wrote extensively on the application of Christian principles to industry. www.warwick.ac.uk /services/library/mrc/ead/242col.htm   (737 words)

Shimobe, Yamanashi bei eLexi - das Onlinelexikon The British Computer Society or BCS is a professional society within the UK consisting of IT practitioners. January 1, 1055) of the house of Premyslids was a duke of Bohemia from 1035 till 1055. It aims to provide a central place for IT practitioners to find information, and accredits www.elexi.de /en/s/sh/shimobe__yamanashi.html   (737 words)

Frank Whittle Papers at WSU Special Collections & Archives In 1936, Whittle teamed up with J.C.B. Tinling and R.D. Williams to form Power Jets Ltd. The R.A.F. was supportive of Whittle and allowed him to pursue his research and development with Power Jets Limited and the British Thomson-Houston Co., Rugby, to produce a working jet engine. Besides the test data on early British jets, some test data on America's first Jet aircraft, the Bell YP-59, is included. The British Air Ministry did not take much interest in the idea at that time due mostly to the unavailability of materials necessary to build such a powerplant. www.libraries.wright.edu /special/manuscripts/ms241.html   (737 words)

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