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Heinrich Lanz AG
Heinrich Lanz AG is a former agricultural machinery manufacturer from Mannheim, Germany. Its tractors were sold bearing the LANZ brand. LANZ won numerous awards at the Strasbourg Agricultural Fair in 1866; namely four Gold, five Silver, and three Bronze. The Heinrich Lanz AG company, and its LANZ brand name was ultimately acquired by way of a merger in 1956 by the American agricultural machinery manufacturer Deere & Company, and became the John Deere Works Mannheim (JDWM). History The Heinrich Lanz Company was founded in 1859 by German engineer Heinrich Lanz. It produced the first steam-powered stationary threshing machines in 1879, and the first crude oil fuelled tractor; the Lanz Bulldog, in 1921. In 1956, Heinrich Lanz AG merged with Deere & Company of Moline, Illinois Illinois ( ) is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its largest metropolitan areas include the Chicago metropolitan area, and the Metro East section, of Greater St. Louis. Other s ...
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Lanz Bulldog
The Lanz Bulldog was a series of tractors manufactured by Heinrich Lanz AG in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Production started in 1921 with the Lanz HL, and various versions of the Bulldog were produced up to 1960, one of them being the Lanz Bulldog D 9506. John Deere purchased Lanz in 1956 and started using the name "John Deere Lanz" for the Lanz product line. A few years after the Bulldog was discontinued the Lanz name fell into disuse. The Lanz Bulldog was one of the most popular German tractors, with over 220,000 of them produced in its long production life. The name "Bulldog" is widely used in Germany as a synonym for tractors even today, especially in Bavaria. Engine The Lanz Bulldog was built with a single-cylinder, two-stroke Akroyd engine – the so-called Bulldog engine – that was designed by Fritz Huber. The Bulldog engine was installed horizontally, with the ignition device – the hot bulb – facing forward. It has crankcase scavenging, and int ...
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Institute Of Electrical And Electronics Engineers
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operations center in Piscataway, New Jersey. The mission of the IEEE is ''advancing technology for the benefit of humanity''. The IEEE was formed from the amalgamation of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the Institute of Radio Engineers in 1963. Due to its expansion of scope into so many related fields, it is simply referred to by the letters I-E-E-E (pronounced I-triple-E), except on legal business documents. , it is the world's largest association of technical professionals with more than 423,000 members in over 160 countries around the world. Its objectives are the educational and technical advancement of electrical and electronic engineering, telecommunications, computer engineering and similar disciplines. History Orig ...
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Illinois
Illinois ( ) is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its largest metropolitan areas include the Chicago metropolitan area, and the Metro East section, of Greater St. Louis. Other smaller metropolitan areas include, Peoria and Rockford, as well Springfield, its capital. Of the fifty U.S. states, Illinois has the fifth-largest gross domestic product (GDP), the sixth-largest population, and the 25th-largest land area. Illinois has a highly diverse economy, with the global city of Chicago in the northeast, major industrial and agricultural hubs in the north and center, and natural resources such as coal, timber, and petroleum in the south. Owing to its central location and favorable geography, the state is a major transportation hub: the Port of Chicago has access to the Atlantic Ocean through the Great Lakes and Saint Lawrence Seaway and to the Gulf of Mexico from the Mississippi River via the Illinois Waterway. Additionally, the Mississippi, Ohio, and Wabas ...
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Moline, Illinois
Moline ( ) is a city located in Rock Island County, Illinois, United States. With a population of 42,985 in 2020, it is the largest city in Rock Island County. Moline is one of the Quad Cities, along with neighboring East Moline and Rock Island in Illinois and the cities of Davenport and Bettendorf in Iowa. The Quad Cities have an estimated population of 381,342. The city is the ninth-most populated city in Illinois outside the Chicago Metropolitan Area. The corporate headquarters of Deere & Company is located in Moline, as was Montgomery Elevator, which was founded and headquartered in Moline until 1997, when it was acquired by Kone Elevator, which has its U.S. Division headquartered in Moline. Quad City International Airport, Black Hawk College, and the Quad Cities campus of Western Illinois University-Quad Cities are located in Moline. Moline is a retail hub for the Illinois Quad Cities, as South Park Mall and numerous big-box shopping plazas are located in the city. In ...
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1956 In Germany
Events in the year 1956 in Germany. Incumbents *President – Theodor Heuss *Chancellor – Konrad Adenauer Events * May 1 - Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1956 * June 22 - July 3 - 6th Berlin International Film Festival * October 27 - Saar Treaty Births *5 January - Frank-Walter Steinmeier, politician *7 January ** Leonard Lansink, actor ** Uwe Ochsenknecht, actor *21 January - Jürgen Kehrer, author *16 February - Bodo Ramelow, politician *25 February - Michel Friedman, lawyer, politician and talk show host *27 February - Rosemarie Gabriel, swimmer *28 March - Evelin Jahl, discus thrower *20 March - Theo Breuer, poet, essayist, editor, translator and publisher *12 April - Herbert Grönemeyer, singer *4 May - Ulrike Meyfarth, high jumper *18 May - Lothar Thoms, German track cyclist (died 2017) *31 May - Fritz Hilpert, German musician *1 June – Petra Morsbach, German author *3 June - Thomas Flach, German sailor *6 June - Hans-Peter Ferner, German athlete * ...
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1921 In Germany
Events in the year 1921 in Germany. Incumbents National level President *Friedrich Ebert (Social Democrats) Chancellor *Constantin Fehrenbach ( Centre) to 4 May, then from 10 May Joseph Wirth (Centre) Overview Almost all of the most important events in Germany in 1921 were connected with questions arising out of the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles, disarmament, reparations, trials of war criminals, and the plebiscite in Upper Silesia—questions that, from their harassing nature, kept both government and people in constant suspense and agitation. Troubles complying with the Treaty of Versailles Disarmament The Protocol of Spa had threatened Germany with new sanctions in the form of further occupation of German territory if Germany did not continue on its schedule of war reparations. But the threat was suspended, and the matter of disarmament was referred to a conference of ministers at Paris at the end of January. This conference not only drew up a plan for Germany's re ...
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Crude Oil
Petroleum, also known as crude oil, or simply oil, is a naturally occurring yellowish-black liquid mixture of mainly hydrocarbons, and is found in geological formations. The name ''petroleum'' covers both naturally occurring unprocessed crude oil and petroleum products that consist of refined crude oil. A fossil fuel, petroleum is formed when large quantities of dead organisms, mostly zooplankton and algae, are buried underneath sedimentary rock and subjected to both prolonged heat and pressure. Petroleum is primarily recovered by oil drilling. Drilling is carried out after studies of structural geology, sedimentary basin analysis, and reservoir characterisation. Recent developments in technologies have also led to exploitation of other unconventional reserves such as oil sands and oil shale. Once extracted, oil is refined and separated, most easily by distillation, into innumerable products for direct use or use in manufacturing. Products include fuels such as gasoli ...
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1879 In Germany
Events from the year 1879 in Germany. Incumbents National level * Kaiser – William I * Chancellor – Otto von Bismarck State level Kingdoms * King of Bavaria – Ludwig II of Bavaria * King of Prussia – Kaiser William I * King of Saxony – Albert of Saxony * King of Württemberg – Charles I of Württemberg Grand Duchies * Grand Duke of Baden – Frederick I * Grand Duke of Hesse – Louis IV * Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin – Frederick Francis II * Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz – Frederick William * Grand Duke of Oldenburg – Peter II * Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach – Charles Alexander Principalities * Schaumburg-Lippe – Adolf I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe * Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt – George Albert, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt * Schwarzburg-Sondershausen – Gonthier Frederick Charles II, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen * Principality of Lippe – Woldemar, Prince of Lippe * Reuss Elder Line – Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss o ...
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Steam Engine
A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. The steam engine uses the force produced by steam pressure to push a piston back and forth inside a cylinder. This pushing force can be transformed, by a connecting rod and crank, into rotational force for work. The term "steam engine" is generally applied only to reciprocating engines as just described, not to the steam turbine. Steam engines are external combustion engines, where the working fluid is separated from the combustion products. The ideal thermodynamic cycle used to analyze this process is called the Rankine cycle. In general usage, the term ''steam engine'' can refer to either complete steam plants (including boilers etc.), such as railway steam locomotives and portable engines, or may refer to the piston or turbine machinery alone, as in the beam engine and stationary steam engine. Although steam-driven devices were known as early as the aeoli ...
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1859 In Germany
Events from the year 1859 in Germany. Incumbents * King of Bavaria – Maximilian II * King of Hanover – George V * King of Prussia – Frederick William IV * King of Saxony – John of Saxony Events * February 4 – German scholar Constantin von Tischendorf rediscovers the ''Codex Sinaiticus'', a 4th-century uncial manuscript of the Greek Bible, in Saint Catherine's Monastery on the foot of Mount Sinai, in the Khedivate of Egypt. Births * January 27 – Wilhelm II of Germany , last Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia (d. 1941 ) * February 3 – Hugo Junkers, German industrialist, aircraft designer (d. 1935) * April 7 – Jacques Loeb, German–American physiologist, biologist (d. 1924) * December 25 – Ludwig von Estorff, German general (d. 1943 ) Deaths *January 20 – Bettina von Arnim, composer and author (born 1785) * May 6 – Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist, geographer (b. 1769) * July 8 - Charlotte von Siebold , German gynecologist (b. 1788 ...
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United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The United States is also in free association with three Pacific Island sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. It is the world's third-largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders with Canada to its north and with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. With a population of over 333 million, it is the most populous country in the Americas and the third most populous in the world. The national capital of the United States is Washington, D.C. and its most populous city and principal financial center is New York City. Paleo-Americ ...
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1866 In France
Events from the year 1866 in France. Events *31 May - Napoleon III announces the withdrawal of French forces in the French intervention in Mexico. *26 July - French evacuate Monterrey. *5 August - French evacuate Saltillo. *14 October - French troops land at Ganghwa Island, Korea as part of French Campaign against Korea for the execution of French Jesuit priests. It is the first military contact between Korea and a Western force. Arts and literature *31 October - Jacques Offenbach's opéra bouffe '' La Vie parisienne'' is premiered at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris. Births *29 January - Romain Rolland, writer, Nobel Prize in Literature (died 1944) *19 February – Louis-Henri Foreau, painter (died 1938) *17 May - Erik Satie, composer and pianist (died 1925) *23 May – Ellen Richards Ridgway, American golfer (died 1934) *6 July - Charles Mangin, general during World War I (died 1925) *13 July - La Goulue, dancer (died 1929) *4 August - Maurice Schutz, actor (died 1955 ...
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