Excelsior

Excelsior (Latin "the very sublime, excellent") stands for:

Excelsior (diamond) , a natural diamond
Excelsior (steamship) , English steamship that sank in 1866
Excelsior (ship, 1987) , barge, wrecked on the Rhine in 2007 (see Excelsior accident )
Excelsior (typeface) , computer font
Theme in chess composition, see Sam Loyd #The Excelsior
Title of a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
State motto of New York (State)
Excelsior Rotterdam , Rotterdam football club
Excelsior (tanks) , British tank project during World War II
Excelsior (irritant gas) , common name of 10-chloro-9,10-dihydroacridarsine
Excelsior (balloon) , free balloon, the 1898 Stanley Spencer (balloonist) and 1909 with Ferdinand Porsche rose
Excelsior (airship) , an experimental airship designed by Stanley Spencer (balloonist) around 1903
Excelsior (Union Army Balloon Corps) , a US military reconnaissance balloon (around 1861–1863)

several mountains, see Excelsior Mountain (disambiguation page)

Companies:

Hotel Excelsior , Berlin
Grand Hotel Excelsior (Venice)
Excelsior Hotel Ernst , Cologne
Excelsior (vehicle manufacturer) , former French vehicle manufacturer
Automobiles Excelsior , former Belgian automobile manufacturer (1903–1928)
Excelsiorwerke , former Cologne automobile manufacturer (1900–1914)
Excelsior machines , German machine and automobile manufacturer
Excelsior Motor Company , former British motorcycle brand (1896-1965)
Excelsior Motor Manufacturing & Supply Company , former US motorcycle brand, also known as American Excelsior
Hannoversche Gummiwerke Excelsior , former bicycle tire brand (1880–1930s)
Motor car factory Excelsior , former Swiss automobile manufacturer (1905–1907)
Balloon Excelsior , founded in 1969 in California (USA), manufacture, repair and flight school for balloons
Excelsior (Newspaper) , the second oldest newspaper in Mexico City, founded in 1917

Places in the USA:

See also:

Excelsior tunnel (Berlin pedestrian tunnel)
Excelsior accident (accident of the inland container ship Excelsior on the Rhine, 2007)
Project Excelsior (record parachute jumps 1959-1960)