Bendix may refer to:
People
First name
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Bendix Hallenstein
Bendix Hallenstein ( 24 January 1835 – 6 January 1905) was a German-born Jewish merchant, statesman, and Manufacturing, manufacturer from Dunedin, New Zealand. He is best known for founding the retail clothing store Hallenstein Brothers, Halle ...
(1835–1905), New Zealand businessman
Middle name
* Kim Bendix Petersen (born 1956), Danish singer known by the stage name
King Diamond
Kim Bendix Petersen (born 14 June 1956), better known by his stage name King Diamond, is a Danish rock musician. As a vocalist, he is known for his powerful and wide-ranging countertenor singing voice, in particular his far-reaching falsetto s ...
Last name
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John E. Bendix (1835–1905), American Civil War and New York Guard general
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Max Bendix
Max Bendix (March 28, 1866 – December 6, 1945) was an American concert violinist, conductor, and teacher. He was the first concertmaster of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and was also the concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera orchestra. Bendi ...
(1866–1945), American violinist and conductor
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Peter Bendix
Peter Bendix (born August 1985) is an American professional baseball front office executive. He is the president of baseball operations for the Miami Marlins of Major League Baseball (MLB).
Career
Bendix attended Tufts University, graduating in ...
(born c. 1984), American professional baseball executive
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Reinhard Bendix
Reinhard Bendix (February 25, 1916 – February 28, 1991) was a German-American sociologist.
Life and career
Born in Berlin, Germany, in 1916, he briefly belonged to Neu Beginnen and Hashomer Hatzair, groups that resisted the Nazis. In 1938 ...
(1916–1991), German-American sociologist
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Rigmor Stampe Bendix (1850–1923), Danish baroness and writer
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Simone Bendix
Simone Bendix (born 26 September 1967) is a Danish actress.
Career
Bendix trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. In addition to the 1994 Gerry Anderson science-fiction drama ''Space Precinct'', in which she played the regular role of ...
(born 1967), Danish actress
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Victor Bendix
Victor Emanuel Bendix (17 May 1851 in Copenhagen – January 1926) was a Danish composer, conductor and pianist, who came from a Jewish family. His teachers included Niels Gade.
He studied at the conservatory of music at Copenhagen, then ...
(1851–1926), Danish composer
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Vincent Hugo Bendix
Vincent Hugo Bendix (August 12, 1881 – March 27, 1945) was an American inventor and industrialist. Vincent Bendix was a pioneer and leader in both the Automotive industry, automotive and aviation industries during the 1920s and 1930s.''Vinc ...
(1881–1945), American inventor and industrialist
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William Bendix
William Bendix (January 14, 1906 – December 14, 1964) was an American film, radio, and television actor, known for his portrayals of rough, blue-collar characters. He gained significant recognition for his role in ''Wake Island'', for wh ...
(1906–1964), American film, radio, and television actor
Corporations
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Bendix Corporation
Bendix Corporation is an American manufacturing and engineering company founded in 1924 and subsidiary of Knorr-Bremse since 2002.
During various times in its existence, Bendix made automotive brake shoes and systems, vacuum tubes, aircraft ...
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Bendix Helicopters
Bendix Helicopters, Inc. was the last company founded by prolific inventor Vincent Bendix, in 1943 in Connecticut. It ceased operations in 1949.
History
It built a 10,000 square foot factory for helicopter production on East Main Street in Strat ...
Other
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Bendix (automobile)
The Bendix Company manufactured the Bendix automobile in Logansport, Indiana from 1908 until 1909.Thorn EMI
Thorn EMI was a major British company involved in consumer electronics, music, defence and retail. Created when Thorn Electrical Industries merged with EMI in October 1979, it was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituen ...
major household appliances
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Bendix drive
A 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 ring gear (which is attached to the flywheel or flexpl ...
, part of an automobile starter motor
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Bendix G-15
The Bendix G-15 is a computer introduced in 1956 by the Bendix Corporation, Computer Division, Los Angeles, California. It is about and weighs about . The G-15 has a drum memory of 2,160 29-bit words, along with 20 words used for special purpos ...
computer
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Bendix G-20
The Bendix G-20 computer was introduced in 1961 by the Bendix Corporation, Computer Division, Los Angeles, California. The G-20 followed the highly successful G-15 vacuum-tube computer. Bendix sold its computer division to Control Data Corporati ...
computer
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Bendix Trophy
The 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 f ...
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Knuth–Bendix completion algorithm The Knuth–Bendix completion algorithm (named after Donald Knuth and Peter Bendix) is a semi-decision algorithm for transforming a set of equations (over terms) into a confluent term rewriting system. When the algorithm succeeds, it effectively ...
See also
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Bendiks
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