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Ferranti effect
Increase in voltage at a long AC power line
Ferranti Mark 1
One of the world's first commercially available general-purpose digital computers
Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti
British engineer (1864–1930)
flip-disc display
electromechanical dot matrix display technology used for large outdoor signs
Mary Lee Woods
British mathematician and computer programmer (1924-2017)
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Ferranti
Ferranti International PLC or simply Ferranti was a UK-based electrical engineering and equipment firm that operated for over a century, from 1885 until its bankruptcy in 1993. At its peak, Ferranti was a significant player in power grid systems, defence electronics, and computing, and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.
Euroradar CAPTOR
radar system
terrain-following radar
radar class
Dietrich Prinz
German-born physicist and computer scientist

Basil de Ferranti
British politician
Valerie Hunter Gordon
British inventor (1921-2016)
John Makepeace Bennett
Australian computer scientist
AI.24 Foxhunter
airborne radar
Conway Berners-Lee
British mathematician and computer scientist (1921-2019)