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Stanhope Commission
Stanhope may refer to: In arts and entertainment * Stanhope essay prize, at Oxford University * Stanhope College, a fictional college attended by Supergirl People * Stanhope (name), a surname and given name * Earl Stanhope, a hereditary title held by seven people since 1718 * Spencer-Stanhope family, a family of British landed gentry * Earl of Harrington, a title in the Peerage of Great Britain Places Australia * Stanhope, Victoria, Australia * Stanhope Gardens, New South Wales, Australia Canada * Stanhope, Prince Edward Island, Canada * Stanhope, Quebec, Canada * Stanhope, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada UK * Stanhope, County Durham, England * Stanhope, Kent, England * Stanhope, Peeblesshire, Scotland United States * Stanhope, Iowa * Stanhope, Kentucky * Stanhope, New Jersey * Stanhope, Ohio * Stanhope, a Mississippi landmark * Stanhope Hotel, in New York City In transportation * Stanhope (carriage), a horse-drawn gig, buggy or light phaeton * Stanhope (railways), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanhope Essay Prize
The Stanhope essay prize was an undergraduate history essay prize created at Balliol College, Oxford, by Philip Henry Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope in 1855. Notable winners Notable Stanhope Prize winners: * John Richard Magrath, 1860 * Francis Jeune, 1863, 1st Baron St Helier * Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead, 1866 * Thomas Buchanan, 1868, Liberal politician * Arthur Francis Leach, 1872 * Richard Lodge, 1875 * Charles Harding Firth, 1877, British historian * Arthur Elam Haigh, 1878 * Holden Hutton, 1881 *John Bruce Williamson, 1883, barrister, historian and writer * William Carr, 1884, biographer * Owen Morgan Edwards, 1886 * George Arnold Wood, 1889, English Australian historian * John Buchan, 1897, British novelist * Robert Rait, 1899 :* Robert Howard Hodgkin was ''proxime'' * Alfred Eckhard Zimmern, 1902, New College, Oxford, British classical scholar and historian * Archibald Main, 1903 * George Stuart Gordon, 1905 * Vivian Hunter Galbraith, 1911, English historian * Michae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanhope, Kentucky
Stanhope is an unincorporated community within Webster County, Kentucky Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north; West Virginia and Virginia to ..., United States. It was also known as Liberty. References Unincorporated communities in Webster County, Kentucky Unincorporated communities in Kentucky {{WebsterCountyKY-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanhope Press
A printing press is a mechanical device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring the ink. It marked a dramatic improvement on earlier printing methods in which the cloth, paper or other medium was brushed or rubbed repeatedly to achieve the transfer of ink, and accelerated the process. Typically used for texts, the invention and global spread of the printing press was one of the most influential events in the second millennium. In Germany, around 1440, goldsmith Johannes Gutenberg invented the movable-type printing press, which started the Printing Revolution. Modelled on the design of existing screw presses, a single Renaissance movable-type printing press could produce up to 3,600 pages per workday, compared to forty by hand-printing and a few by hand-copying. Gutenberg's newly devised hand mould made possible the precise and rapid creation of metal movable type in large quantities. His two inven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanhope Plc
Stanhope may refer to: In arts and entertainment * Stanhope essay prize, at Oxford University * Stanhope College, a fictional college attended by Supergirl People * Stanhope (name), a surname and given name * Earl Stanhope, a hereditary title held by seven people since 1718 * Spencer-Stanhope family, a family of British landed gentry * Earl of Harrington, a title in the Peerage of Great Britain Places Australia * Stanhope, Victoria, Australia * Stanhope Gardens, New South Wales, Australia Canada * Stanhope, Prince Edward Island, Canada * Stanhope, Quebec, Canada * Stanhope, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada UK * Stanhope, County Durham, England * Stanhope, Kent, England * Stanhope, Peeblesshire, Scotland United States * Stanhope, Iowa * Stanhope, Kentucky * Stanhope, New Jersey * Stanhope, Ohio * Stanhope, a Mississippi landmark * Stanhope Hotel, in New York City In transportation * Stanhope (carriage), a horse-drawn gig, buggy or light phaeton * Stanhope (railways ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanhopea
''Stanhopea'' is a genus of the orchid family (Orchidaceae) from Central and South America. The abbreviation used in horticultural trade is ''Stan.'' The genus is named for the 4th Earl of Stanhope (Philip Henry Stanhope) (1781-1855), president of the Medico-Botanical Society of London (1829-1837). It comprises 55 species and 5 natural hybrids. These epiphytic, but occasionally terrestrial orchids can be found in damp forests from Mexico to Trinidad to NW Argentina. Their ovate pseudobulbs carry from the top one long, plicate, elliptic leaf. ''Stanhopea'' is noted for its complex and usually fragrant flowers that are generally spectacular and short-lived. Their pendant inflorescences are noted for flowering out of the bottom of the containers in which they grow, lending themselves to culture in baskets that have enough open space for the inflorescence to push through. They are sometimes called upside-down orchids. The majority of species are robust plants that grow readily in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanhope (optical Bijou)
Stanhopes or Stanho-scopes are optical devices that enable the viewing of microphotographs without using a microscope.Focal encyclopedia of photography' By Michael R. Peres Focal Press, 2007 The Strad Magazine October 2005 pp. 51-54 They were invented by in 1857. Dagron bypassed the need for an expensive microscope to view the microscopic photographs by attaching the microphotograph at the end of a modified Stanhope lens. He called the devices ''bijoux photo-microscopiques'' or ''microscop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twyford Motor Car Company
Introduction Robert E. Twyford had an important role in the development of the automobile. He originally started out as a building contractor in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but later turned to developing automobiles. In 1900, the patent office granted him a patent for a four-wheel driving gear for motor carriages. Robert Twyford developed cars with both four-wheel drive and power-steering, first in Pittsburgh and then in Brookville, Pennsylvania. He later moved to Texas. In 1985, William McCracken began work on a replica of the Twyford automobile and finished it in 1989. The Twyford Automobile in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Invention Robert Twyford first started to build automobiles, while still living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1897, he invented a machine which he claimed to have superior performance over any other and planned on exhibiting it to the public soon after. The machine used connecting rods, like locomotives, and had the same design as a Park Trap, which gave ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanhope Body
In automotive use, the Stanhope is a car body style characterized by its single bench seat mounted at the center, folding cloth top, and a dashboard at the front. These vehicles were built from approximately 1900 to 1910. The design was derived from the Stanhope horse-drawn carriage and could be considered a specific type of runabout. Initial Stanhope models featured tiller steering, either in the center or at the side. Features of the car included a foot button to signal a bell (early version of a horn), hard rubber tires, wood trim, and eight forward speeds, three backs and a top speed of about . Further productions of the Stanhope automobile include three-wheeled versions with fully enclosed body work and a four-wheeled version with front-wheel drive using chains, which also allowed front-wheel steering. Models *1899–1916 Woods electric car *1899 Winton (largest manufacturer of gasoline-powered automobiles in the United States at the time) *1900–1901 Porter Motor Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanhope (railways)
The Railway Regulation Act 1844 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom providing a minimum standard for rail passenger travel. It provided compulsory services at a price affordable to poorer people to enable them to travel to find work. It is one of the Railway Regulation Acts 1840 to 1893. The prior situation Until that time there were three or more classes of carriage, third class usually an open goods wagon, often without seats, sometimes referred to sarcastically as " Stanhopes", a corruption of "Stand-ups". During that year, a select committee had produced six reports on the railways, at the behest of the Board of Trade under its president, W. E. Gladstone. These led to ''An Act to attach certain Conditions to the construction of future Railways authorised by any Act of the present or succeeding sessions of Parliament; and for other Purposes in relation to Railways,'' referred to as "Gladstone's Act". The original bill introduced into Parliament by W. E. Gladst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanhope (carriage)
The stanhope was a gig, buggy, or light phaeton, typically having a high seat for one person and closed back. It was named after Captain Hon. Henry FitzRoy Stanhope (ca. 1754 - 1828, son of William Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Harrington), a well-known sportsman of his time, and built by the London firm of Tilbury, coachbuilders in Mount Street.At South Street, London in about 1820 according to Walrond, Sally: Looking at Carriages, p. 73 (see Tilbury (carriage) A tilbury is a light, open, two-wheeled carriage, with or without a top, developed in the early 19th century by the London firm of Tilbury, coachbuilders in Mount StreetAt South Street, London in about 1820 according to Walrond, Sally: Looking at ...) See also * Stanhope, an early auto body * Types of carriages References External linksD7849 Stanhope gig, wood, maker unknown, England, c 1862 - Powerhouse Museum Collection.Powerhouse Museum , Science + Design , Sydney Australia. Search "stanhope gig".Morven ParkMorven Par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanhope Hotel
995 Fifth Avenue is a 16-story co-op apartment building at 995 Fifth Avenue and East 81st Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City, across Fifth Avenue from Central Park and the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Fifth Avenue building. It was constructed in 1926 as The Stanhope Apartment Hotel and designed by Rosario Candela. The building was converted to a residential co-op with 26 units in 2005 and renamed The Stanhope. It has since been renamed simply 995 Fifth Avenue. History The Stanhope Apartment Hotel opened in 1927 under the ownership of the 955 Fifth Avenue Corporation. It shortly passed into the ownership of Benjamin Winter, Inc. in 1928, followed by joint ownership among four banks, including the Bank of United States, in 1932, after Winter's default. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanhope, Ohio
Stanhope is an unincorporated community in Ashtabula and Trumbull counties, in the U.S. state of Ohio Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by area, and with a population of nearly 11.8 million, is the seventh-most populous and tenth-most densely populated. The sta .... History A post office was established at Stanhope in 1891, and remained in operation until 1893. The community has the name of one Captain Stanhope. References Unincorporated communities in Ashtabula County, Ohio Unincorporated communities in Trumbull County, Ohio 1891 establishments in Ohio Unincorporated communities in Ohio {{TrumbullCountyOH-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
