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	Ferranti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ferranti or Ferranti International Signal plc by the time of its collapse, was a major UK electrical engineering and equipment firm, known primarily for their defense electronics and power grid systems.
		Ferranti is also famous in the computer industry for building the second commercial computer, the Ferranti Mark I, which went on sale in 1949 and started their computer business which lasted into the 1970s.
		Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti (1864-1930) was born in Liverpool, his Italian father a photographer and his mother a concert pianist.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ferranti (1117 words)

	Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti ( 1864 - 1930) was an electrical engineer and inventor.
		Ferranti showed a remarkable talent for electrical engineering from his childhood.
		His first invention, at the age of 13, was an arc light for street lighting.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sebastian_Ziani_de_Ferranti (129 words)

	Ferranti -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Ferranti is also famous in the (A machine for performing calculations automatically) computer industry for building the first commercial computers, the (Click link for more info and facts about Ferranti Star) Ferranti Star, which went on sale in 1949 and started their computer business which lasted into the 1970s.
		His first invention, at the age of 13, was an (A lamp that produces light when electric current flows across the gap between two electrodes) arc light for street lighting.
		Ferranti purchased (Click link for more info and facts about International Signal and Control) International Signal and Control (ISC), a (A Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies) Pennsylvania based defence contractor, in 1987 and was renamed Ferranti International Signal plc.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/F/Fe/Ferranti.htm (893 words)

	Ferranti - Iridis Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Ferranti Limited was a major UK electrical engineering and equipment firm, known primarily for their defense electronics and power grid systems.
		They are also famous in the computer industry for building the first commercial computers, the Ferranti Star, which went on sale in 1949 and started their computer business which lasted into the 1970s.
		Concentrating on their defense sales from the late 1980s, Ferranti eventually purchased ICS, a US based contractor, only to find their profits were based on illegal arms sales.
	www.iridis.com /Ferranti (539 words)

	ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Ferranti Sebastian Ziani de (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de (1547-1616), Spanish writer of the Golden Age, whose satiric novel Don Quixote is one of the masterpieces of world...
		De la Mare, Walter John (1873-1956), English poet, anthologist, and novelist, born in Charlton, Kent, and educated at St Paul's School, London.
		Coster, Charles ThÃ©odore Henri de (1827-1879), Belgian novelist, born in Munich.
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	Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti - The IEE
		Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti was an Innovator in the development of electrical engineering, an Engineer who led the application of power generation and distribution, and the Entrepreneur founder of the Ferranti group of companies.
		Sebastian constructed, and patented (with Sir William Thomson - Lord Kelvin), the "Ferranti dynamo" at the age of 16, and one year later sold a dynamo for £5 10s.
		Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti joined the Institution of Electrical engineers in 1891, became a member of Council in 1895, and served as IEE President in 1910-11.
	www.iee.org /OnComms/Branches/UK/England/NorthE/Mersey/ferranti.cfm?PrintVersion=true (551 words)

	Ferranti’s Deptford Power Station
		Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti was already a remarkable young man ; not altogether surprising considering the family from which he came.
		Ferranti was convinced that economic electricity supply depended on the use of alternating current and transformers, which would enable the energy to be transmitted at high voltage over very much greater distances.
		For Ferranti, that must have spelt the end of his vision of Deptford as a station capable of meeting much of London's increasing demand for electricity with the economic benefits of large scale generation.
	swehs.co.uk /docs/news25su.html (4084 words)

	classicwireless.co.uk/FerrantiPg1
		Ferranti was founded way back in 1882 by Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti, although of course in those early days radio transmission was not yet
		However Ferranti was already researching into electrical and telegraphic properties, indeed the year 1885 saw him (and George Addenbrooke) granted a patent (No 14917) for improvements in telegraphy and telephony by use of transformers.
		Ferranti himself died in 1930, but by then the Ferranti company was already producing radio receivers.
	www.classicwireless.btinternet.co.uk /ferrantia.htm (402 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Ferranti Sebastian Ziani de (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		De Facto, in law, phrase used to signify the exercise of a power in spite of the absence of legal authority.
		De Kooning, Willem (1904-1997), American Abstract Expressionist painter, who had a major international influence on later art styles.
		De Forest, Lee (1873-1961), American inventor who was a pioneer in the development of radio communication.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/searchdetail.aspx?q=Ferranti+Sebastian+Ziani+de&pg=3&grp=art (291 words)

	Scotsman.com Business - Technology - BAE keeps city in its sights
		Ferrantiâs radar technology later emerged in fighter aircraft such as the Lightning - the plane that sits outside the firmâs South Gyle site - and it made the transition to the countryâs fishing fleet and the Navy.
		By 1952, Ferranti was the second-biggest industrial employer in Edinburgh, boasting a turnover of Â£2m.
		FERRANTI was founded by Dr Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti, a Liverpool-born inventor, in 1882.
	business.scotsman.com /technology.cfm?id=717942003 (1627 words)

	EDF Energy Power Up! > A Day Out > Page 5 : Pioneers of Electricity
		Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti, credited with building the first large scale electricity generation and supply network, was born in Liverpool of Italian descent.
		Ferranti improved the generation and supply of electricity so much that soon the station was supplying premises in 100 miles of streets, from Regents Park to the Thames and from Knightsbridge to the Law Courts at the boundary of the City of London.
		What followed is a tribute not just to the engineering genius of Ferranti, but to the financial courage and enterprise of those who were prepared to back his vision.
	www.electricityineducation.co.uk /keystage3/out/page5.html (1506 words)

	ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Ferranti Sebastian Ziani de (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Ferranti, Sebastian Ziani de (1864-1930), British electrical engineer, a pioneer in electric power supplies (Electricity Generation).
		Lerdo de Tejada, SebastiÃ¡n (1825-1889), Mexican President (1872-1876) and political leader.
		Born in Jalapa EnrÃquez, Mexico, Lerdo de Tejada was...
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	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Ferranti: A History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Ferranti was one of the most successful firms of the 20th century and, as a centre of engineering excellence and innovation, it was known world-wide.
		The company was started by the 18-year-old Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti in 1882 and was still family-owned and run over 90 years later, giving it a distinctive culture which owed all to a passion for engineering, invention and innovation.
		But if Ferranti was much more than just a business to the Ferranti dynasty, it was more than just an employer to those it employed; to many it was part of their own extended family and an imprtant part of their social lives.
	amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1859360807 (389 words)

	FP-6000 -- From DATAR To The FP-6000
		Ferranti Canada's efforts to launch an indigenous computer industry, with itself at the centre, and the eventual collapse of this dream, is a more complex story than the usual versions which speak of great ideas lost to an unresponsive society.
		Ferranti Canada's response to the position of DRB was prudent: "Solandt leaves a small loophole for us to be associated with the Board, provided we will work for nothing", wrote A.B. Cooper, the president of the Canadian subsidiary, to de Ferranti.
		Ferranti Canada's design approach was to make all aspects of the computer cheque sorting system modular, in order that customers could expand the capacity of their sorting systems in an economical and flexible manner.
	www.ewh.ieee.org /reg/7/millennium/fp6000/fp6000_datar.html (9099 words)

	peak district local history, customs, wildlife, transport - Peakland Heritage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		His name was Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti and he was an inventor and pioneer in the field of electrical engineering.
		Every room contained a wireless set; there was an all-electric laundry for the family’s wash; the tennis court was floodlit and the beautiful lawns were trimmed with an electric mower.
		Ferranti also had one of the first cars seen in this part of the Peak.
	www.peaklandheritage.org.uk /index.asp?peakkey=20600621 (199 words)

	Today in Technology History - Apr 9
		Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti was born in Liverpool, England on April 9, 1864.
		Ferranti demonstrated that an "alternating current" (AC) could be used to distribute power just as safely as a "direct current" (DC), and he built what was then the world's largest power station in the late 1880s.
		In 1888, while he was a college student, he wrote a socialist newspaper article that so infuriated the government authorities that Steinmetz felt it necessary to flee Europe for the United States.
	www.tecsoc.org /pubs/history/2002/apr9.htm (295 words)

	The Ferranti Collection - 24 Hour Museum - official guide to UK museums, galleries, exhibitions and heritage
		Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti (1864-1930) was born in Liverpool.
		The Ferranti company closed down in 1994 after over 100 years of innovation and enterprise.
		The company’s archives, and over 1,500 Ferranti objects, found a home in the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester in 1995.
	www.24hourmuseum.org.uk /museum_gfx_en/AM19322.html (176 words)

	"F" Famous People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Falla, Manuel de (1876-1946) Composer, born in Cadiz, SW Spain.
		Fernández de Moratín, Leandro (1760-1828) Poet and playwright, born in Madrid, Spain.
		Fernández de Rojas, Juan (1750-1819) Poet and satirist, born in Colmenar de Oreja, Madrid, Spain.
	www.jonathanselby.com /Ffam (10345 words)

	Ferranti, Sebastian Ziani de -- Encyclopædia Britannica
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		British airplane designer and manufacturer Geoffrey De Havilland was born in Buckinghamshire on July 27, 1882, and was the uncle of actresses Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland.
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	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9034081 (553 words)

	Confederate Pirate Raphael Semmes CAPTURED CDV (quality CIVIL WAR era AMERICANA) at GUNSIGHT ANTIQUES
		This CDV is in fine condition and is an original product of the Liverpool photographer Ferranti whose son Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti (1864-1930) was a prolific inventor most famous for his work in generating and distributing electricity.
		Ferranti was the English Matthew Brady in the sense that he recognized and acted upon the American Civil War public’s thrust for all forms of war information and material the least of which was in images of leading heroes and villains.
		Ferranti found himself in an enviable position as he was able to produce an affordable Confederate image in the CDV format that would outstrip anything that the material starved southern photographer could offer.
	pages.gunsightantiques.com /5052/PictPage/1922181267.html (372 words)

	Super Scientists - Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti
		Ferranti was a British electrical engineer, born in Liverpool in 1864, who started his scientific investigations early.
		As chief engineer with the London Electric Supply Company, Ferranti designed and oversaw construction of the Deptford Power Station, the first high-voltage generation station in the world.
		In all, Ferranti was granted 176 patents for such things as the alternator, high-tension cables, circuit breakers, transformers and turbines.
	www.energyquest.ca.gov /scientists/ferranti.html (181 words)

	The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography: Ferranti, Sebastian Ziani de (1864-1930)@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		He also designed, constructed, and experimented with many other electrical and mechanical devices, including high-tension cables, circuit breakers, transformers, turbines, and spinning machines.
		Ferranti was born in Liverpool on 9 April 1864.
		From his youth he was fascinated by machines and the principles by which they operate.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:99916268&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (152 words)

	HPS202HS04 Heritage Moments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti was an English engineer and inventor, who saw the future of electrical generation and long-distance transmission.
		He was responsible for the design of the Deptford Generator Station in London, one of the first large-scale A.C. stations, and a failed attempt to build a hydroelectric system on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls in the 1890s.
		It was preceded in the 1950s by: a cheque sorting computer for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; a mail sorting computer for Canada Post; RESERVEC, an airline reservation computer for TransCanada Airways; and DATAR, a prototype computer intended for use by the Canadian Navy for anti-submarine patrols in the Atlantic.
	individual.utoronto.ca /scampbell/HeritageMoments.html (2832 words)

	ESD Journal - The ESD & Electrostatics Magazine
		A French engineer, Alphonse Beau de Rochas, formulated the basic design for the four-stroke internal combustion engine and patented it in 1862, but never built a working model.
		American physicist and inventor of the Van de Graaff generator, a type of high-voltage electrostatic generator that can be used as a particle accelerator in atomic research.
		It is a principle of electric fields that charges on a surface can leap off at points where the curvature is great, that is, where the radius is small.
	www.esdjournal.com /articles/History/2005/January/january.htm (3273 words)

	Ferranti - Enpsychlopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Ferranti is also famous in the computer industry for building the first commercial computers, the Ferranti Mark I, which went on sale in 1949 and started their computer business which lasted into the 1970s.
		New factories were set up in the north-west at Moston, Wythenshawe and Gorton which were happy for the jobs.
		In the post-war era this became a large segment of their company, with various branches supplying radar sets, avionics and other military electronics, as well as their famous foray into computer design and manufacture in the late 1940s into the 1960s.
	www.grohol.com /psypsych/Ferranti (894 words)

	January 13 - Today in Science History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		François Félix Tisserand was a French astronomer noted for his textbook Traité de mécanique céleste, 4 vol.
		This work, an update of Pierre-Simon Laplace's work on the same subject, is still used as a sourcebook by authors writing on celestial mechanics.
		In 1908, Henry Farman, an English-born Frenchman, flew the first one-kilometer circuit, winning the Grand Prix de Aviation and its 50,000 franc purse.
	www.todayinsci.com /1/1_13.htm (2358 words)

	thePeerage.com - Person Page 7725
		Sir Vincent Ziani de Ferranti is the son of Dr.
		She married Sir Vincent Ziani de Ferranti, son of Dr.
		Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti, on 25 October 1919.
	www.thepeerage.com /p7725.htm (743 words)

	Casebook: Jack the Ripper - Message Boards: Venetian Studies.
		In this illuminating and prestigious intellectual climate the monastery of San Giorgio rose to maximum religious importance, its benefactor was Doge Sebastian Ziani.
		In 1177, Pope Alexander III met Emperor Federico (Barbarossa)at San Giorgio Maggiore, the mediator of this historic meeting was Sebastian Ziani.
		When you say there was a Sebastian Ziani in London - Deptford to be precise - in 1888, you are of course correct.
	www.casebook.org /forum/messages/4922/9506.html (4111 words)

	Thomas Ryder & Son Ltd. History Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Numerical control had been developed by more than one British company and by 1969 the IRC had identified this type of automation as an area of potential growth.
		The Ferranti system, which was based on magnetic tape input and needed a main frame computer to produce it's programmes, was only practicably available for large companies.
		By 1970 Plessey, who's system operated on punched paper tape which could be programmed on a Flexo-Writer, had, with the financial support of the IRC, acquired Ferranti's N. business.
	basil.acs.bolton.ac.uk /~mjh1hlc/ryder_02.htm (653 words)

	Sebastian
		Sebastian comes from a Greek name meaning “Man from Sebasta,” when Sebasta was a place derived from Augustus, meaning “Revered.”
		Sebastian, being the name of a well-known 3rd-century Roman martyr saint, was popular during the Middle Ages (artists, especially, were fond of depicting his dramatic, arrow-filled death).
		Although it was popluar in Spain, France, and Germany (often as Bastian, Bastien, or Bestian), Sebastian was rather less common in England (except in Cornwall, where it was imported from France).
	www.geocities.com /edgarbook/names/s/sebastian.html (88 words)

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