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Reliance (other)
Reliance may refer to: Companies * Reliance Controls, an American electrical products company founded in 1909 in Wisconsin * Reliance Home Comfort, a Canadian water heater rental and HVAC service company * Reliance Industries, an Indian conglomerate holding headed by Mukesh Ambani: ** Reliance Digital ** Reliance Jio ** Reliance Fresh ** Reliance Industrial Infrastructure ** Reliance Institute of Life Sciences ** Reliance Logistics ** Reliance Petroleum ** Reliance Retail, retail business wing ** Reliance Solar * Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, another Indian conglomerate headed by Anil Ambani: ** Reliance Capital ** Reliance Communications ** Reliance Entertainment ** Reliance Health ** Reliance Infrastructure, private power utility and construction ** Reliance MediaWorks ** Reliance Power ** Reliance Insurance * Reliance Computer Corporation, former name of ServerWorks, a fabless semiconductor company Places United States * Reliance, Delaware and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reliance Controls
Reliance Controls Corporation is an electrical products company based in Racine, Wisconsin, founded as Reliance Automatic Lighting Company in 1909 with the invention of the heavy-duty commercial time switch.Electrical Review and Western Electrician, Volume 59 Electrical Review Publishing Company, 1911 The company's products include heavy duty time clocks and controls, transfer switches and transfer panels for portable generators and inverters, and generator accessories. Reliance also sells heavy duty outdoor generator power cords, outdoor remote power inlet boxes, home monitoring systems, and NEMA-style plugs and connectors. Reliance Automatic Lighting Company Reliance Automatic Lighting Company was organized in Warren, Ohio, in 1909 before moving to Racine in 1911. It was owned and operated by Benjamin F. Flegel and manufactured automatic time switches (clock apparatus for turning lights on and off at prearranged times). The automatic switches were used for store signs and windows ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reliance Infrastructure
Reliance Infrastructure Limited (R-Infra), formerly Reliance Energy Limited (REL) and Bombay Suburban Electric Supply (BSES), is an Indian private sector enterprise involved in power generation, infrastructure, construction and defence. It is part of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group. The company is headed by its chairman, Anil Ambani, and chief executive officer, Punit Narendra Garg (since 6 April 2019). The corporate headquarters is in Navi Mumbai. Reliance Infrastructure's interests are in the fields of power plants, metro rail, airports, bridges, toll roads, and defence. It is a major shareholder in the other group company, Reliance Power and Reliance Naval and Engineering Limited. In Fortune India 500 list of 2019, Reliance Infrastructure was ranked as the 51st largest corporation in India with first rank in 'Infrastructure Development' category. As of March 2018, Reliance Infrastructure has 56 subsidiaries, 8 associate companies, and 2 joint-ventures. The EPC Busin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USCGC Reliance (WMEC-615)
USCGC ''Reliance'' (WMEC-615) is a United States Coast Guard medium endurance cutter. She is the first of the 210' Medium Endurance Cutter Fleet and the fourth Revenue Cutter / Coast Guard Cutter to bear the name ''Reliance''. Constructed by Todd Shipyards in Houston, Texas and commissioned in 1964, she was originally homeported in Corpus Christi, Texas. Her duties included offshore oil rig inspections, fisheries, counter drug, alien migrant interdiction, marine pollution patrols, and search and rescue. ''Reliance'' has been homeported in Yorktown, Virginia, Port Canaveral, Florida, New Castle, New Hampshire and Portsmouth, New Hampshire. As of May 2019 she is stationed at the Naval Air Station Pensacola Naval Air Station Pensacola or NAS Pensacola (formerly NAS/KNAS until changed circa 1970 to allow Nassau International Airport, now Lynden Pindling International Airport, to have IATA code NAS), "The Cradle of Naval Aviation", is a United State ... in Pensacola, Florida. Refe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reliance (yacht)
''Reliance'' was the 1903 America's Cup defender designed by Nat Herreshoff. ''Reliance'' was funded by a nine member syndicate of members of the New York Yacht Club headed by Cornelius Vanderbilt III. ''Reliance'' was designed to take full advantage of the Seawanhaka '90-foot' rating rule and was suitable only for use in certain conditions. The 1903 America's Cup was the last to be raced according to the Seawanhaka rule. Design The design took advantage of a loophole in the Seawanhaka '90-foot' rating rule, to produce a racing yacht with long overhangs at each end, so that when heeled over, her waterline length (and therefore her speed) increased dramatically (see image at left). To save weight, she was completely unfinished below deck, with exposed frames. Reliance was the first racing boat to be fitted with winches below decks, in an era when her competitors relied on sheer man-power. Despite this a crew of 64 was required for racing due to the large sail plan. From the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reliance (skipjack)
The ''Reliance'' is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1904 at Fishing Creek, Maryland. She is a two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop. Her beam is and her draft is . She one of the 35 surviving traditional Chesapeake Bay skipjacks and a member of the last commercial sailing fleet in the United States. She is located at Tilghman, Talbot County, Maryland. She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ... in 1976. References External links *, including photo in 1975, at Maryland Historical Trust Ships in Talbot County, Maryland Skipjacks Ships on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland 1904 ships National Register of Historic Places in Talbot County, Maryland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L-class Blimp
The L-class blimps were training airships operated by the United States Navy during World War II. In the mid-1930s, the Goodyear Aircraft Company built a family of small non-rigid airships that the company used for advertising the Goodyear name. In 1937 the United States Navy awarded a contract for two different airships, K-class blimp designated K-2 and a smaller blimp based upon Goodyear's smaller commercial model airship used for advertising and passenger carrying. The smaller blimp was designated by the Navy as L-1. It was delivered in April 1938 and operated from the Navy's lighter-than-air facility at Lakehurst, New Jersey. In the meantime, the Navy ordered two more L-Class blimps, the L-2 and L-3, on September 25, 1940. These were delivered in 1941. L-2 was lost in a nighttime mid-air collision with the G-1 on June 8, 1942. When the United States entered World War II, the Navy took over the operation of Goodyear's five commercial blimps. These were the ''Resolute'', ''En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reliance (automobile)
The Brass era Reliance automobile was manufactured by the Reliance Automobile Manufacturing Company in Detroit, Michigan from 1904 to 1907. History The Reliance was a two-cylinder, 3.2 liter water-cooled engine car with selective transmission and shaft-drive. It was designed by E. O. Abbott and W. K. Ackerman, both formerly with Cadillac.The body style was a side-entrance tonneau and the company wanted to advertise they were the first in the United States to introduce it, and pre-dated production to 1903 instead of 1904. Peerless and Orlo both introduced a side-entrance body in 1904. The Reliance had a King of Belgium tonneau body style for 1905 and was priced at $1,250, . The company was under-capitalized and was reorganized in 1904 as Reliance Motor Car Company, with Fred O. Paige taking charge shortly after. A commercial truck was added in 1906 and from February 1907 only trucks were manufactured. Reliance sold the passenger car production and it would later become the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reliance, Wyoming
Reliance is a census-designated place (CDP) in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 714 at the 2010 census. Geography Reliance is located at (41.664002, -109.213068). According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 4.1 square miles (10.7 km2), all land. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 665 people, 249 households, and 182 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 69.8 people per square mile (26.9/km2). There were 272 housing units at an average density of 28.5/sq mi (11.0/km2). The racial makeup of the CDP was 92.33% White, 0.90% African American, 0.45% Native American, 0.30% Asian, 0.15% Pacific Islander, 3.16% from other races, and 2.71% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 7.97% of the population. There were 249 households, out of which 43.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 54.2% were married couples living together, 10.4% had a femal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reliance, Tennessee
Reliance is an unincorporated community in Polk County, Tennessee, United States. Reliance is located on the Hiwassee River at the junction of Tennessee State Route 30 and Tennessee State Route 315, east of Benton. Reliance had a post office A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letters and parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post offices may offer additional serv ... until it closed on May 21, 2011; it still has its own ZIP code, 37369. History Designated in 1986, the community is coexistent with the Reliance Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, which consists of the Vaughn-Webb House, Higdon Hotel, Watchman's House, and Hiwassee Union Church and Masonic Lodge. The community developed in the latter 19th century when a water-powered grist mill and sawmill were constructed along the river. The railroad was constructed in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reliance, South Dakota
Reliance is a town in Lyman County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 128 at the 2020 census. Reliance was laid out in 1905. Geography Reliance is located at (43.878490, -99.601138). According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which is land and is water. Reliance has been assigned the ZIP code 57569 and the FIPS place code 54020. Medicine Butte is near Reliance. It rises about 200 feet above the prairie, and is sacred to the Brulé Sioux people, especially those who live on the nearby Lower Brule Indian Reservation. Demographics 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 191 people, 73 households, and 52 families residing in the town. The population density was . There were 85 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the town was 77.0% White, 0.5% African American, 17.8% Native American, 0.5% from other races, and 4.2% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.6% of the pop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reliance, Delaware And Maryland
Reliance is an unincorporated community located on the border of the U.S. states of Maryland and Delaware. The Maryland side of the community has portions in Caroline and Dorchester counties, while the Delaware side is located within Sussex County. Reliance is along Delaware Route 20 and Maryland Route 392 at the junction with Maryland Route 577, west of Seaford. It was previously known as Johnson's Crossroads.Kaminkow, Marion J. ''Maryland A to Z: A Topographical Dictionary.'' Baltimore, Maryland: Magna Carta Book Company, 1985. p285 Notable person Patty Cannon (c. 1760 or 1759 or 1769 – May 11, 1829) was an illegal slave trader and the co-leader of the Cannon-Johnson Gang of Maryland-Delaware, which operated for about a decade in the early 19th century kidnapping free blacks and refugee slaves to sell into slavery in the South, which came to be known, as the Reverse Underground Railroad The Reverse Underground Railroad is the name given, sardonically, to the pre-Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ServerWorks
ServerWorks Corporation was an American fabless semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California, that manufactured chipsets for server computers and workstations running IA-32 microprocessors. Founded as Reliance Computer Corporation in 1994, it filed its initial public offering in the beginning of 2000 and was acquired by Broadcom for nearly US$1 billion. History 1994–2000: Foundation and growth ServerWorks was founded as PRQ—shortly thereafter Reliance Computer Corporation—in 1994 in Santa Clara, California. The company was founded by Raju Vegesna and two friends of his. Vegesna was named CEO and president; prior to founding Reliance, Vegesna had been employed by Ross Technology, where he was the lead architect behind the hyperSPARC microprocessor. The company was largely funded through Vegesna's personal savings and in its first year only employed 12 people, most of whom bore several disparate job titles. Reliance's first client was Compaq, who employed t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
