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Dowty RFC
Dowty may refer to: * Dowty Group, a British aircraft equipment manufacturing business People with the surname *Alan Dowty Alan Dowty (born January 15, 1940) is an American author, historian and Professor of International Relations and Political Science Emeritus, University of Notre Dame. He was formerly on the faculty of the Hebrew University (Jerusalem), 1964–197 ..., international relations scholar * David Dowty, American linguist * George Dowty, British inventor and businessman See also * Doughty, a surname * Dowty Rotol, a British company specialising in aircraft propellers * Messier-Dowty, originally a landing gear joint venture between Snecma and Dowty {{disambiguation, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dowty Group
Dowty Group was a leading British manufacturer of aircraft equipment. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. The firm ceased operating as an individual entity following its acquisition by TI Group in 1992. The company has its origins as the ''Aircraft Components Company'' in 1931 and the work of British inventor and businessman George Dowty. In 1934, Dowty achieved its breakthrough sale of its innovative undercarriage designs, being contracted by the Gloster Aircraft Company to provide oleo struts for the Gloster Gauntlet biplane. In 1935, as the business expanded to meet demand, Dowty founded a new manufacturing venture to produce his aviation products, which was named ''Dowty Aviation''. It would quickly secure numerous additional orders and manufacturing facilities to cope with the pressing demands of the Second World War, a significant majority of British aircraft production incorporating the firm's various products. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Dowty
Alan Dowty (born January 15, 1940) is an American author, historian and Professor of International Relations and Political Science Emeritus, University of Notre Dame. He was formerly on the faculty of the Hebrew University (Jerusalem), 1964–1975, Kahanoff Chair Professor of Israel Studies at the University of Calgary, 2003–2006, and President of the Association for Israel Studies, 2005–2007. In 2017 he was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award in Israel Studies by the Association for Israel Studies and the Israel Institute. His recent work specialises and focuses on Israeli–American relations, Israel and history of Zionism, Israeli politics and the Arab–Israeli conflict. Early life and education Dowty earned a B.A. from Shimer College (1959) and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago (1960, 1963). In 1964–1975 he was on the faculty of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, during which time he served as Executive Director of the Leonard Davis Institute for Inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Dowty
David Roach Dowty (born 1945) is a linguist known primarily for his work in semantic and syntactic theory, and especially in Montague grammar and Categorial grammar. Dowty is a professor emeritus of linguistics at the Ohio State University, and his research interests mainly lie in Semantic and Syntactic Theory, Lexical semantics and Thematic roles, Categorial grammar, and Semantics of Tense and Aspect. Life David Dowty received his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin, with a thesis supervised by Robert Wall and Emmon Bach on the temporal semantics of verbs. Dowty was editor-in-chief of the journal ''Linguistics and Philosophy'' from 1988 to 1992, and associate editor of ''Language''. For several years he was chairman of the Department of Linguistics at the Ohio State University. A one-day symposium was held at the University of Groningen in honour of his sixtieth birthday, subsequently published as ''Theory and Evidence in Semantics''. Major Publications * ''Word Mean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Dowty
Sir George Herbert Dowty (27 March 1901 – 2 December 1975) was an English inventor and businessman. He founded Dowty Aviation in the 1930s producing aircraft components such as hydraulic systems, undercarriage units, and warning devices. Early life Dowty was born in Pershore, Worcestershire in 1901. He was sent to the Royal Grammar School Worcester after losing his right eye at the age of 12 making a firework. He left in 1916 to take up a job as an apprentice for Heenan & Froude at a factory in Worcester. He later moved to Cheltenham to become a draughtsman for the same company. In 1918 Dowty became a draughtsman with the British Aerial Transport Company in London. He then joined the design office of the A. V. Roe & Company at Hamble near Southampton. In 1924 he went to the Gloster Aircraft Company where he worked on undercarriage design. Aircraft equipment In 1931 he set up his own company in Cheltenham making aircraft equipment: for this purpose he leased a factory and bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doughty
Doughty is an English and Scottish surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Al Doughty (born 1966), British musician and bassist * Andrew Doughty (1916–2013), British anaesthetist * Anthony Doughty (born 1963), British musician * Arthur Doughty (1860–1936), Canadian civil servant * Brandon Doughty (born 1991), American football player * C.N. Doughty (1867–1915), American artist (Joseph John Englehart) * Caitlin Doughty (born 1984), American mortician and death-positivity advocate * Cecil Langley Doughty (1913–1985), British comics artist and illustrator * Charles Doughty (politician) (1902–1973), British Conservative Party politician * Charles Montagu Doughty (1843–1926), English poet, writer, and traveller * Charles Doughty-Wylie (1868–1915), British army officer, nephew of the above * David Doughty (born 1937), English cricketer * Drew Doughty (born 1989), Canadian professional ice hockey player * Eugenia Doughty (1874–1934), second wife of Sir Geor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dowty Rotol
Dowty Propellers is a British engineering company based in Brockworth, Gloucestershire that specialises in the manufacture, repair and overhaul of propellers and propeller components for customers around the world. It is owned by General Electric, forming part of its GE Aviation Systems division. History The company was formed as Rotol Airscrews in 1937 by Rolls-Royce and Bristol Engines to take over both companies' propeller development, the market being too small to support more than one company. The name is a contraction of "ROlls-Royce" and "BrisTOL". Rotol's propellers were always considered leading edge, its models equipping the Hawker Hurricane, Supermarine Spitfire, and many other Second World War-era aircraft. By the end of the war it had introduced the first five-bladed propeller to see widespread use, used on late-model Spitfires. In 1943 the company changed its name from Rotol Airscrews Limited to Rotol Limited, and in 1952 it acquired British Messier Limited, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
