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- Bendix HallensteinBendix HallensteinBendix Hallenstein was a merchant, statesman, and manufacturer from Dunedin, New Zealand. He was born in Brunswick, Germany. A clothing retailer, Hallensteins, still bears his name. He also founded the D.I.C...
- New Zealand businessman - Henry BendixHenry BendixHenry Bendix, also known as Weatherman, is a fictional character in the Wildstorm universe. He first appeared in the Stormwatch series.-Early life:...
- fictional character from Wildstorm comics - John E. BendixJohn E. BendixJohn E. Bendix was an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War who commanded two different New York regiments and then a brigade of infantry in Army of the Potomac in the Eastern Theater. He survived a serious wound at the Battle of Fredericksburg in December 1862...
- American Civil War and New York Guard general - Max BendixMax BendixMax Bendix was an American composer, conductor, and violinist; he worked for many years with Theodore Thomas, and served for a time as concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera orchestra. He wrote a number of works for orchestra and some incidental music as well as songs...
- American composer, conductor, violinist - Reinhard BendixReinhard BendixReinhard Bendix was a German American sociologist.Born in Berlin, Germany, he briefly belonged to Neu beginnen and Hashomer Hatzair, groups that resisted the Nazis. In 1938 he emigrated to the United States. He received his B.S., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, and subsequently...
- sociologist - Victor BendixVictor BendixVictor Emanuel Bendix was a Jewish Danish composer, conductor and pianist. His teachers included Niels Gade....
- Danish composer - Vincent Hugo BendixVincent Hugo BendixVincent Hugo Bendix was an American inventor and industrialist. Vincent Bendix was a pioneer and leader in both the automotive and aviation industries during the 1920s and 1930s.-Background:...
- American inventor and industrialist - William BendixWilliam BendixWilliam Bendix was an American film, radio, and television actor, best remembered in movies for the title role in the movie The Babe Ruth Story and for portraying clumsily earnest aircraft plant worker Chester A. Riley in radio and television's The Life of Riley...
- American film, radio, and television actor
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- The Bendix CorporationBendix CorporationThe Bendix Corporation was an American manufacturing and engineering company which during various times in its 60 year existence made brake systems, aeronautical hydraulics, avionics, aircraft and automobile fuel control systems, radios, televisions and computers, and which licensed its name for...
- Bendix HelicoptersBendix HelicoptersBendix Helicopters, Inc. was the last company founded by prolific inventor Vincent Bendix, in 1942....
- The Bendix trophyBendix trophyThe Bendix Trophy is a U.S. aeronautical racing trophy. The transcontinental, point-to-point race, sponsored by industrialist Vincent Bendix founder of Bendix Corporation, began in 1931 as part of the National Air Races. Initial prize money for the winners was $15,000...
- The Bendix Corporation
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- Knuth-Bendix completion algorithmKnuth-Bendix completion algorithmThe Knuth–Bendix completion algorithm is an algorithm for transforming a set of equations into a confluent term rewriting system...
- Bendix G-15Bendix G-15The Bendix G-15 computer was introduced in 1956 by the Bendix Corporation, Computer Division, Los Angeles, California. It was about 5 by 3 by 3 ft and weighed about 950 lb . The base system, without peripherals, cost $49,500. A working model cost around $60,000. It could also be rented for...
computer - Bendix affiliation Philco - Thorn EMIThorn EMIThorn EMI was a major British company involved in consumer electronics, music, defence and retail. Created in October 1979 when Thorn Electrical Industries merged with EMI, it was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but it demerged again in...
major household appliances - Bendix (automobile)Bendix (Automobile)The Bendix Company manufactured the Bendix automobile in Logansport, Indiana from 1908 until 1909....
, a car manufactured in the early 1900s - Bendix driveBendix driveA Bendix drive is a type of engagement mechanism used in starter motors of internal combustion engines. The device allows the pinion gear of the starter motor to engage or disengage the flywheel of the engine automatically when the starter is powered or when the engine fires, respectively...
, part of an automobile starter motor - Bendix Foreign Exchange- A currency conversion company located in the downtown core in the heart of Toronto, Ontario, Canada's financial district.