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Frank W. Luerssen
Frank W. Luerssen (1927–2013) was an American steel-industry metallurgist and executive who spent his entire 40-year career at Inland Steel, rising from research metallurgist to chairman and chief executive officer.
Frank W. McBee Jr.
Frank Wilkins McBee Jr. (1920–2000) was an American mechanical engineer who co-founded the Austin, Texas, defense-electronics firm Tracor and led it as president, CEO, and chairman from 1972 to 1988.
Frank Whittle
Frank Whittle (1907–1996) was a British Royal Air Force officer and engineer who patented the turbojet, founding Power Jets to power Britain's first jet aircraft in 1941.
Franka Emika Panda
The Franka Emika Panda is a seven-axis collaborative robot arm by Munich's Franka Emika, with torque sensors in all joints and wide use in robotics research.
Franka Kitchen
Franka Kitchen is a simulated robotics benchmark where a 9-degree-of-freedom Franka robot arm completes kitchen tasks like opening a microwave, originating at Google Research and now maintained by the Farama Foundation.
Frankenstein Castle
Frankenstein Castle (Burg Frankenstein) is a ruined hill castle near Darmstadt, Germany, first documented in 1252 and famous for its coincidental match with Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein.
Frankfurt Airport
Frankfurt Airport, also called Flughafen Frankfurt am Main or Rhein-Main-Flughafen, is Germany's largest airport and a Lufthansa hub, handling about 63.2 million passengers in 2025.
Frankfurt kitchen
The Frankfurt kitchen (Frankfurter Küche) is a compact standardized fitted kitchen designed in 1926 by Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky for Frankfurt's New Frankfurt housing program, and it is regarded as the prototype of the modern built-in kitchen.
Franklin Dam controversy
The Franklin Dam controversy, known as the Gordon below Franklin Scheme, was an Australian conservation battle of the late 1970s and early 1980s over a proposed dam in south-west Tasmania.
Franklin Electric
Franklin Electric Co., Inc. is an American manufacturer of water and fuel pumping systems and submersible motors, founded in 1944 in Bluffton, Indiana, and headquartered in Fort Wayne.
Franklin F. Offner
Franklin F. Offner (1911–1999) was an American biophysicist and inventor who founded Offner Electronics in 1938, built the world-standard Type R Dynograph EEG machine, and taught biophysics at Northwestern University.
Franklin F. Snyder
Franklin Farison Snyder (1910-2008) was an American hydrologic engineer who created the synthetic unit hydrograph in 1938 and supervised Rhine River flood forecasts for Allied crossings in 1944-45.
Franklin half dollar
The Franklin half dollar, also known as the Benjamin Franklin half dollar, is a US 50-cent coin struck from 1948 to 1963, showing Franklin and the Liberty Bell.
Franklin Institute
The Franklin Institute is a science museum and education center in Philadelphia, founded in 1824 in honor of Benjamin Franklin and now on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
Franklin K. Moore
Franklin K. Moore, also known as Franklin Kingston Moore, was a mechanical engineer and Cornell professor known for fluid mechanics, turbomachinery, and heat transfer research.
Franklin M. Orr Jr.
Franklin M. ("Lynn") Orr Jr. is an American petroleum engineer, Stanford professor emeritus, and the first Under Secretary for Science and Energy at the Department of Energy.
Franklin S. Cooper
Franklin Seaney Cooper (1908–1999) was an American speech scientist who built the Pattern Playback, the first practical speech synthesizer, and led Haskins Laboratories for decades.
Franklin stove
The Franklin stove, originally called the Pennsylvania fireplace, is a cast-iron heating stove Benjamin Franklin designed in Philadelphia around 1742 to warm rooms more efficiently than open fireplaces.
FranklinWH
FranklinWH, formally FranklinWH Energy Storage Inc., is an American residential energy storage company founded in 2019 in San Jose, California, known for its whole-home battery system.
Frankston line
The Frankston line, also called the Frankston railway line, is an electrified suburban railway in Melbourne running from Flinders Street to Frankston through the bayside southern suburbs.
Franky So
Franky So is an electrical engineer and Walter and Ida Freeman Distinguished Professor at North Carolina State University who spent fourteen years in industrial OLED research at Motorola and OSRAM.
Franpipe Gas Pipeline
Franpipe is an 840-kilometer natural gas pipeline running from the Draupner E platform in the North Sea to Dunkerque in northern France, opened in 1998.
Frans Spaepen
Frans Spaepen is a materials scientist, the John C. and Helen F. Franklin Professor of Applied Physics at Harvard, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2008.
František Křižík
František Křižík (1847–1941) was a Czech electrotechnical engineer and industrialist called the Czech Edison, who lit the 1891 Prague Jubilee Exhibition and electrified the Tábor–Bechyně railway.
Franz F. Pischinger
Franz F. Pischinger, an Austrian-German mechanical engineer, directed thermodynamics at RWTH Aachen until 1997, founded FEV, and pioneered key patents for modern emissions technology.
Franz Krull Sk class
The Franz Krull Sk class was sixteen 750 mm gauge 2-8-0 steam locomotives built by AS Franz Krull in Tallinn between 1931 and 1941 for Estonian narrow-gauge railways.
Franz Reichelt
Franz Reichelt, also known as François Reichelt, was an Austrian-born French tailor, the "Flying Tailor", who died in 1912 testing his parachute suit from the Eiffel Tower.
Franz Stigler
Franz Stigler (Ludwig Franz Stigler, 1915–2008) was a German Luftwaffe flying ace credited with 28 victories who in 1943 spared and escorted the crippled American bomber Ye Olde Pub to safety.
FRAPCON
FRAPCON is a computer code developed by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to calculate steady-state thermal-mechanical behavior of light-water reactor fuel rods.
Fraport
Fraport AG, founded in 1924 and listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in 2001, is a German airport company that operates Frankfurt Airport and about 30 airports worldwide.