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William Shepherd Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil, GCMG, MC, PC, QC (10 August 1893 – 3 February 1961), was a British politician. He was a long-serving cabinet minister before serving as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1951 to 1959. He was then appointed as the 14th Governor-General of Australia, in office from 1960 until his death in ...
William Morrison. William Morrison was a pen name used by Joseph Samachson (1906-1980). He earned a Ph.D. in chemistry from Yale at the age of 23. He was an assistant professor at the College of Medicine, University of Illinois. He also headed a laboratory in metabolic research dealing with diseases that affect the skeleton.
5 days ago · William Morris (born March 24, 1834, Walthamstow, near London, England—died October 3, 1896, Hammersmith, near London) was an English designer, craftsman, poet, and early socialist, whose designs for furniture, fabrics, stained glass, wallpaper, and other decorative arts generated the Arts and Crafts movement in England and revolutionized Victorian taste.
An electrifying Iowan: William Morrison, pioneer of battery technology and automobiles. The winning car of the 1895 Chicago Times-Herald race, the Duryea Motorized Wagon, shown here on the occasion of the famous event. The Duryea car had a one-cylinder internal-combustion engine. Photographer unknown, Detroit Public Library Digital Collections.
Other articles where William Morrison is discussed: automobile: Early electric automobiles: 1890, by William Morrison, could maintain a speed of 14 miles (23 km) per hour.
Summary of William Morris. Few artists left such a wide and indelible mark on the art, culture, and politics of their era as William Morris did on the second half of the nineteenth century. Training first as a priest and then as an architect before abandoning both to realize his visions of medieval arcadia in the company of the Pre-Raphaelites ...
The first electric car in the United States was developed in 1890–91 by Scotland-born William Morrison of Des Moines, Iowa; the vehicle was a six-passenger wagon capable of reaching a speed of 23 km/h (14 mph).
