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Richard Norris (1922–2005)
Richard Norris may refer to: *Richard Norris (1807–1874), American locomotive engineer with Norris Locomotive Works * Richard Norris (actor) (1910–1943), American actor, killed during World War II *Richard Norris (1922–2005), American actor, starred in ''Abie's Irish Rose'' * Richard Norris (field hockey) (1931–2012), British Olympic field hockey player *Richard Norris (musician) (born 1965), British music producer and musician, with The Grid *Richard Hill Norris Professor Richard Hill Norris FRSE FRSGS (1830-1916) was a British physiologist, spiritualist and photographer. From the 1880s he began microscopic photography of blood corpuscles and was a pioneer of microphotography. In 1856 he invented the d ... (1830–1916), British physiologist, spiritualist and photographer * Richard A. Norris, Jr. (1930–2005), Episcopal priest, theologian and patristics scholar See also * Dick Norris, Australian entomologist {{hndis, Norris, Richard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norris Locomotive Works
The Norris Locomotive Works was a steam locomotive manufacturing company based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that produced nearly one thousand railroad engines between 1832 and 1866. It was the dominant American locomotive producer during most of that period, as well as the first major exporter of American locomotives, selling its popular 4-2-0 engines to railways in Europe and building the first locomotive used in South America. History Origin The company was started in 1832 as the American Steam Carriage Company by William Norris (1802-1867) and Major Stephen H. Long (1784-1864), a military topographical engineer and explorer. The two men had experimented with steam engine building for years and, as early as 1829, designed a locomotive to burn anthracite coal. Norris and Long also built an engine called the ''Black Hawk'', which performed with partial success on the Boston and Providence Railroad and the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad in the early 1830s. Major Long la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Norris (actor)
Richard Norris may refer to: *Richard Norris (1807–1874), American locomotive engineer with Norris Locomotive Works * Richard Norris (actor) (1910–1943), American actor, killed during World War II *Richard Norris (1922–2005), American actor, starred in ''Abie's Irish Rose'' * Richard Norris (field hockey) (1931–2012), British Olympic field hockey player *Richard Norris (musician) (born 1965), British music producer and musician, with The Grid *Richard Hill Norris Professor Richard Hill Norris FRSE FRSGS (1830-1916) was a British physiologist, spiritualist and photographer. From the 1880s he began microscopic photography of blood corpuscles and was a pioneer of microphotography. In 1856 he invented the d ... (1830–1916), British physiologist, spiritualist and photographer * Richard A. Norris, Jr. (1930–2005), Episcopal priest, theologian and patristics scholar See also * Dick Norris, Australian entomologist {{hndis, Norris, Richard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abie's Irish Rose (1946 Film)
''Abie's Irish Rose'' is a 1946 American comedy film directed by A. Edward Sutherland based Abie's Irish Rose, on a play by Anne Nichols. The film stars Michael Chekhov, Joanne Dru, Richard Norris, J. M. Kerrigan, George E. Stone, Vera Gordon, and Emory Parnell. The film was released on December 27, 1946, by United Artists. It was a remake of Abie's Irish Rose (1928 film), the 1928 film that was based on the 1922 play Abie's Irish Rose by Anne Nichols. The film drew criticism for stereotyping and additional cuts were made after complaints. Plot Stationed in London, the Jewish American soldier Abie Levy falls in love with a young Irish Catholic lady, Rosemary Murphy, and they get married. Their families are not informed, and when the time comes for Rosemary to return to the United States, the only thing Abie tells his father Solomon is that he has met a girl and is in love. Solomon takes a liking to Rosemary, but assumes she shares the same faith. A wedding is planned, no one els ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Norris (field Hockey)
Richard Owen Alfred Norris (10 December 1931 – 25 August 2012) was a British field hockey player who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad ( fi, XV olympiadin kisat; sv, Den XV olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952 ( sv, Helsin ... in Helsinki, winning a bronze medal. He was the youngest member of the British field hockey team, which won the bronze medal. He played all three matches as forward. Norris was among the surviving team members who had a reunion at the London Olympics to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of their medal winning achievement. External links * profile [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Norris (musician)
Richard Norris was born 23 June 1965 and is a London-based record producer, songwriter, sound engineer, musician, DJ and author. He is best known as a member of electronic dance band The Grid. Richard has also worked as a producer and engineer since the 80s with artists such as: Bryan Ferry, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Marc Almond, Joe Strummer and the Pet Shop Boys. Norris began making music as a teenage member of St. Albans punk band Innocent Vicars. Vicars recorded two singles in 1980: "Antimatter" and "Funky Town" for the independent No Brain Records. Norris started working in the music industry as the label manager for the British psychedelic record label Bam Caruso before becoming a writer for NME in 1987. Bands The Grid Norris and David Ball collaborated when they formed the electronic dance group The Grid in 1988. The Grid signed to Warner Bros Records/East West Records the same year. The Grid had six Top 40 UK Singles Chart hits between 1990 and 1995 including: "Floatati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Hill Norris
Professor Richard Hill Norris FRSE FRSGS (1830-1916) was a British physiologist, spiritualist and photographer. From the 1880s he began microscopic photography of blood corpuscles and was a pioneer of microphotography. In 1856 he invented the dry collodion photographic plate. Life Norris studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, developing an early interest in microphotography; mainly taking pictures of frogs' blood. In 1856 he invented the first dry collodion photographic plate, during 1858 founding the Patent Dry Collodion Plate Company in Birmingham - one of the first commercial producers of photographic materials in the world. From 1862 to 1891 he was Professor of Physiology at Queens College in Birmingham. In 1878 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, their proposers being Sir Thomas Richard Fraser, John Gray McKendrick, Alexander Dickson and Alexander Buchan. He was President of the Birmingham Philosophical Society. Sometime within April ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard A
Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'strong in rule'. Nicknames include "Richie", "Dick", "Dickon", " Dickie", "Rich", "Rick", "Rico", "Ricky", and more. Richard is a common English, German and French male name. It's also used in many more languages, particularly Germanic, such as Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, and Dutch, as well as other languages including Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Finnish. Richard is cognate with variants of the name in other European languages, such as the Swedish "Rickard", the Catalan "Ricard" and the Italian "Riccardo", among others (see comprehensive variant list below). People named Richard Multiple people with the same name * Richard Andersen (other) * Richard Anderson (other) * Richard Cartwright (other) * Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
