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    Robert Whitehead (3 January 1823 – 14 November 1905) was an English engineer who was most famous for developing the first effective self-propelled naval...
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  • self-propelled torpedo, invented by Robert Whitehead in 1866. Whiteheads, another name for the wheat disease take-all. USS Whitehead (1861–1865), American Civil...
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  • Robert Whitehead (1823–1905) was an English engineer and entrepreneur who built the first modern torpedo. Robert Whitehead may also refer to: Robert Whitehead...
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  • Robert Whitehead (March 3, 1916 – June 15, 2002) was a Canadian theatre producer. His first production was Medea, starring Judith Anderson and John Gielgud...
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    Whitehead torpedo was the first self-propelled or "locomotive" torpedo ever developed. It was perfected in 1866 by British engineer Robert Whitehead from...
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    1873. Whitehead then took it over and at the beginning of 1875 transformed it into a private company called 'Torpedo-Fabrik von Robert Whitehead'. Giovanni...
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  • Richard Whitehead (disambiguation), multiple people Robert Whitehead (disambiguation), multiple people Ron Whitehead, American poet Rowland Whitehead (disambiguation)...
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    knight of the Order of Franz Joseph, was the son of Robert Whitehead, the eponym of the Whitehead torpedo. Her mother, an amateur architect and pianist...
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  • Robert Whitehead (1856 to 1938) was an English land owner, businessman and Justice of the Peace (1915-1916). He was chairman or director of many business...
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  • Robert Whitehead (September 21, 1897 – June 8, 1960) was an American politician and lawyer from the U.S. state of Virginia. A member of the Democratic...
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  • Robert E. Whitehead (born 1950) is the former US Chargé d'Affaires in Gabon, as well as Ambassador to the Togolese Republic (2012–2015) and Chief of Mission...
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  • and showed part of Worth's campus from the air in its introduction. Robert Whitehead, inventor of the torpedo, built the school's clocktower and model farm...
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    This usage likely inspired Robert Fulton's use of the term to describe his stationary mines, and later Robert Whitehead's naming of the first self-propelled...
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    Group. Cronyn was also a cousin of Canadian-born theater producer, Robert Whitehead, and a first cousin of the Canadian-British artist Hugh Verschoyle...
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  • Robert George Whitehead (October 31, 1916 – February 22, 2007) was a Texas businessman who created Quaker House Products, Inc., which produced and marketed...
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    in 1882 and the first torpedo factory in the world in 1866, after Robert Whitehead, manager of the "Stabilimento Tecnico Fiumano" (an Austrian engineering...
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  • Vince Lee Aldrovandra Cotton as Trader Viking Faizon Love as Pudbedder Robert Whitehead as Zach Devlin Jane Benney as Laleti Fem Belling as the Helicopter...
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    viable weapon with the development of the Whitehead torpedo, designed in 1866 by British engineer Robert Whitehead, the first practical self-propelled or...
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  • Trigger (2020). Born in Harlem, Alexander is the son of Alethia Knox and Robert Whitehead. As a teen, he began dancing in New York night clubs earning the nickname...
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    recommendations of the 2018 Ombudsman Report into the activities of Robert Whitehead at Puffing Billy Railway and other heritage railway groups around Victoria...
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  • Canadian-born Broadway producer Robert Whitehead, a cousin of actor Hume Cronyn. They had two sons and were married until Whitehead's death in June 2002. In 1970...
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    Alfred North Whitehead OM FRS FBA (15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947) was an English mathematician and philosopher. He created the philosophical school...
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  • Geoffrey Whitehead (born 1 October 1939) is an English actor. He has appeared in a range of television, film and radio roles. In the theatre, he has played...
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  • Donald Robert Whitehead (1938–1990) was an American entomologist, who specialized in the study of the biogeography and systematics of weevils. Whitehead was...
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    In 1866, British engineer Robert Whitehead invented the first effective self-propelled torpedo, the eponymous Whitehead torpedo; French and German inventions...
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  • Jarmecca Yvonne "Nikki" Whitehead (April 18, 1975 – January 13, 2010) was a 34-year-old mother of 16-year-old identical twins Jasmiyah Kaneesha and Tasmiyah...
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  • David Armand (born David Robert Whitehead in September 1977) is an English comedian, actor and writer who has performed on stage, film, radio and most...
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    New Haven, Connecticut, directed by Harold Clurman and produced by Robert Whitehead. In 1959, she was featured in the comedy Golden Fleecing, starring...
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    son of the engineer Robert Whitehead (1823–1905) by his wife Frances Maria Johnson (1821–1883). His elder sister, Alice Whitehead, married Georg Anton...
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    Critics Circle Award. The following year, she was selected by producer Robert Whitehead to succeed his wife, Zoe Caldwell in the Broadway production of Terrence...
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