Faster access than browser!
47 relations: Admiralty, Agricultural engineering, Aldershot, Bernard Newman (author), Blacksmith, British Film Institute, Caterpillar Inc., Clayton & Shuttleworth, Compression ratio, Continuous track, Cylinder head, David Roberts (engineer), Diesel engine, Edward VII, Engine, England, Grantham, Great Dorset Steam Fair, Guglielmo Marconi, Herbert Akroyd Stuart, History of the internal combustion engine, Holt Manufacturing Company, Hornsby-Akroyd oil engine, Hot-bulb engine, Lighthouse, Lincoln, England, Lincolnshire, Marshall, Sons & Co., Museum of Lincolnshire Life, Newport Pagnell, North Wales, Portable engine, Richard Hornsby, Rochet-Schneider, Rock of Gibraltar, Royal Agricultural Society of England, Rudolf Diesel, Ruston (engine builder), Ruston, Proctor and Company, Science Museum, London, Statue of Liberty, Steam engine, Taj Mahal, The Tank Museum, Traction engine, World War I, World's Columbian Exposition.
Admiralty
The Admiralty, originally known as the Office of the Admiralty and Marine Affairs, was the government department responsible for the command of the Royal Navy firstly in the Kingdom of England, secondly in the Kingdom of Great Britain, and from 1801 to 1964, the United Kingdom and former British Empire.
New!!: Richard Hornsby & Sons and Admiralty · See more »
Agricultural engineering
Agricultural Engineering is the engineering discipline that studies agricultural production and processing.
New!!: Richard Hornsby & Sons and Agricultural engineering · See more »
Aldershot
Aldershot is a town in the Rushmoor district of Hampshire, England.
New!!: Richard Hornsby & Sons and Aldershot · See more »
Bernard Newman (author)
Bernard Charles Newman (8 May 1897 – 19 February 1968) was a British author of over 100 books, both fiction and non-fiction.
New!!: Richard Hornsby & Sons and Bernard Newman (author) · See more »
Blacksmith
A blacksmith is a metalsmith who creates objects from wrought iron or steel by forging the metal, using tools to hammer, bend, and cut (cf. whitesmith).
New!!: Richard Hornsby & Sons and Blacksmith · See more »
British Film Institute
The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and charitable organisation which promotes and preserves filmmaking and television in the United Kingdom.
New!!: Richard Hornsby & Sons and British Film Institute · See more »
Caterpillar Inc.
Caterpillar Inc. is an American Fortune 100 corporation which designs, develops, engineers, manufactures, markets and sells machinery, engines, financial products and insurance to customers via a worldwide dealer network.
New!!: Richard Hornsby & Sons and Caterpillar Inc. · See more »
Clayton & Shuttleworth
Clayton & Shuttleworth was an engineering company located at Stamp End Works, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England.
New!!: Richard Hornsby & Sons and Clayton & Shuttleworth · See more »
Compression ratio
The static compression ratio of an internal combustion engine or external combustion engine is a value that represents the ratio of the volume of its combustion chamber from its largest capacity to its smallest capacity.
New!!: Richard Hornsby & Sons and Compression ratio · See more »
Continuous track
Continuous track, also called tank tread or caterpillar track, is a system of vehicle propulsion in which a continuous band of treads or track plates is driven by two or more wheels.
New!!: Richard Hornsby & Sons and Continuous track · See more »
Cylinder head
In an internal combustion engine, the cylinder head (often informally abbreviated to just head) sits above the cylinders on top of the cylinder block.
New!!: Richard Hornsby & Sons and Cylinder head · See more »
David Roberts (engineer)
David Roberts (1859, Chester – 22 April 1928, Grantham) was the Chief Engineer and managing director of Richard Hornsby & Sons in the early 1900s.
New!!: Richard Hornsby & Sons and David Roberts (engineer) · See more »
Diesel engine
The diesel engine (also known as a compression-ignition or CI engine), named after Rudolf Diesel, is an internal combustion engine in which ignition of the fuel which is injected into the combustion chamber is caused by the elevated temperature of the air in the cylinder due to mechanical compression (adiabatic compression).
New!!: Richard Hornsby & Sons and Diesel engine · See more »
Edward VII
Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor of India from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910.
New!!: Richard Hornsby & Sons and Edward VII · See more »
Engine
An engine or motor is a machine designed to convert one form of energy into mechanical energy.
New!!: Richard Hornsby & Sons and Engine · See more »
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
New!!: Richard Hornsby & Sons and England · See more »
Grantham
Grantham is a town in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England.
New!!: Richard Hornsby & Sons and Grantham · See more »
Great Dorset Steam Fair
The Great Dorset Steam Fair (abbreviated GDSF, and since 2010 also known as The National Heritage Show) is an annual show featuring steam-powered vehicles and machinery.
New!!: Richard Hornsby & Sons and Great Dorset Steam Fair · See more »
Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo Marconi, 1st Marquis of Marconi (25 April 187420 July 1937) was an Italian inventor and electrical engineer known for his pioneering work on long-distance radio transmission and for his development of Marconi's law and a radio telegraph system.
New!!: Richard Hornsby & Sons and Guglielmo Marconi · See more »
Herbert Akroyd Stuart
Herbert Akroyd-Stuart (28 January 1864, Halifax, Yorkshire, England – 19 February 1927, Halifax) was an English inventor who is noted for his invention of the hot bulb engine, or heavy oil engine.
New!!: Richard Hornsby & Sons and Herbert Akroyd Stuart · See more »
History of the internal combustion engine
Various scientists and engineers contributed to the development of internal combustion engines.
New!!: Richard Hornsby & Sons and History of the internal combustion engine · See more »
Holt Manufacturing Company
The Holt Manufacturing Company began with the 1883 founding of Stockton Wheel Service in Stockton, California, United States.
New!!: Richard Hornsby & Sons and Holt Manufacturing Company · See more »
Hornsby-Akroyd oil engine
The Hornsby-Akroyd oil engine was the first successful design of internal combustion engine using "heavy oil" as a fuel.
New!!: Richard Hornsby & Sons and Hornsby-Akroyd oil engine · See more »
Hot-bulb engine
The hot-bulb engine is a type of internal combustion engine in which fuel ignites by coming in contact with a red-hot metal surface inside a bulb, followed by the introduction of air (oxygen) compressed into the hot-bulb chamber by the rising piston.
New!!: Richard Hornsby & Sons and Hot-bulb engine · See more »
Lighthouse
A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and to serve as a navigational aid for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways.
New!!: Richard Hornsby & Sons and Lighthouse · See more »
Lincoln, England
Lincoln is a cathedral city and the county town of Lincolnshire in the East Midlands of England.
New!!: Richard Hornsby & Sons and Lincoln, England · See more »
Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs) is a county in east central England.
New!!: Richard Hornsby & Sons and Lincolnshire · See more »
Marshall, Sons & Co.
Marshall, Sons & Co. was a British agricultural machinery manufacturer founded in 1848.
New!!: Richard Hornsby & Sons and Marshall, Sons & Co. · See more »
Museum of Lincolnshire Life
The Museum of Lincolnshire Life is a museum in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, in the UK.
New!!: Richard Hornsby & Sons and Museum of Lincolnshire Life · See more »
Newport Pagnell
Newport Pagnell is a town in Buckinghamshire, England.
New!!: Richard Hornsby & Sons and Newport Pagnell · See more »
North Wales
North Wales (Gogledd Cymru) is an unofficial region of Wales.
New!!: Richard Hornsby & Sons and North Wales · See more »
Portable engine
A portable engine is an engine, either a steam engine or an internal combustion engine, that sits in one place while operating (providing power to machinery), but (unlike a stationary engine) is portable and thus can be easily moved from one work site to another.
New!!: Richard Hornsby & Sons and Portable engine · See more »
Richard Hornsby
Richard Hornsby Elsham in Lincolnshire 4 June 1790 - 1864.was an inventor and founder of a major agricultural machinery firm that developed steam engines.
New!!: Richard Hornsby & Sons and Richard Hornsby · See more »
Rochet-Schneider
Rochet-Schneider was a French company, based in Lyons, that produced automobiles between 1894 and 1932.
New!!: Richard Hornsby & Sons and Rochet-Schneider · See more »
Rock of Gibraltar
The Rock of Gibraltar, also known as the Pillars of Hercules, is a monolithic limestone promontory located in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar, near the southwestern tip of Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.
New!!: Richard Hornsby & Sons and Rock of Gibraltar · See more »
Royal Agricultural Society of England
The Royal Agricultural Society of England (RASE) promotes the scientific development of English agriculture.
New!!: Richard Hornsby & Sons and Royal Agricultural Society of England · See more »
Rudolf Diesel
Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel (18 March 185829 September 1913) was a German inventor and mechanical engineer, famous for the invention of the diesel engine, and for his mysterious death.
New!!: Richard Hornsby & Sons and Rudolf Diesel · See more »
Ruston (engine builder)
Ruston & Hornsby, later known as Ruston, was an industrial equipment manufacturer in Lincoln, England, the company's history going back to 1840.
New!!: Richard Hornsby & Sons and Ruston (engine builder) · See more »
Ruston, Proctor and Company
Ruston, Proctor and Company was established in Lincoln, England in 1857, and were manufacturers of steam tractors and engines.
New!!: Richard Hornsby & Sons and Ruston, Proctor and Company · See more »
Science Museum, London
The Science Museum is a major museum on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, London.
New!!: Richard Hornsby & Sons and Science Museum, London · See more »
Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City, in the United States.
New!!: Richard Hornsby & Sons and Statue of Liberty · See more »
Steam engine
A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid.
New!!: Richard Hornsby & Sons and Steam engine · See more »
Taj Mahal
The Taj Mahal (meaning "Crown of the Palace") is an ivory-white marble mausoleum on the south bank of the Yamuna river in the Indian city of Agra.
New!!: Richard Hornsby & Sons and Taj Mahal · See more »
The Tank Museum
The Tank Museum (previously The Bovington Tank Museum) is a collection of armoured fighting vehicles at Bovington Camp in Dorset, South West England.
New!!: Richard Hornsby & Sons and The Tank Museum · See more »
Traction engine
A traction engine is a self-propelled steam engine used to move heavy loads on roads, plough ground or to provide power at a chosen location.
New!!: Richard Hornsby & Sons and Traction engine · See more »
World War I
World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.
New!!: Richard Hornsby & Sons and World War I · See more »
World's Columbian Exposition
The World's Columbian Exposition (the official shortened name for the World's Fair: Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair and Chicago Columbian Exposition) was a world's fair held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492.
New!!: Richard Hornsby & Sons and World's Columbian Exposition · See more »
Redirects here:
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hornsby_%26_Sons
