Sunbeam

Sunbeam may refer to:

• Sunlight
• Crepuscular rays, rays of sunlight that appear to radiate from a single point in the sky (such as a gap in clouds)

Biology

• Xenopeltidae, a small family of snakes in Southeast Asia commonly called the sunbeam snakes
• Curetis, a genus of gossamer-winged butterflies commonly called the sunbeams

Business

• Sunbeam Bread, a franchised brand of white bread
• Sunbeam Corporation Limited, an Australian appliance/consumer products manufacturer founded in 1902
• Sunbeam Products, an American appliance/consumer products manufacturer founded in 1897
• Sunbeam Television, an American television station owner which owns WSVN in Miami, Florida, and WHDH and WLVI in Boston, Massachusetts
• Sunbeam Foods Group, an Australian dried fruits company established in 1926 in Mildura as Co-operative Dried Fruit Sales Pty Ltd

Naval and military

• USS Sunbeam III (SP-251), a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919

Places

• Sunbeam, Colorado, at 40°33'3"N 108°11'43"W
• Sunbeam, Florida, at 30°12'21"N 81°34'44"W
• Sunbeam, Idaho, at 44°16'16"N 114°44'0"W
• Sunbeam, Illinois, at 41°7'38"N 90°44'6"W
• Sunbeam, Virginia, at 36°35'15"N 77°1'41"W
• Sunbeam, West Virginia, at 37°50'48"N 81°56'43"W
• Sunbeam, a neighborhood in Jacksonville, Florida

Transportation

• Sunbeam (car company), a British maker of cars originally allied with Sunbeam bicycles and motorcycles under the company of John Marston Ltd
• Chrysler Sunbeam, a 1977 hatchback automobile
• Sunbeam (locomotive), a member of the Great Western Railway Sun Class of locomotives
• Sunbeam (motorcycle), a brand of motorcycle made by John Marston Ltd. of Wolverhampton, UK
• Sunbeam S7 and S8, a brand of motorcycles acquired by BSA in 1943 under which it produced longitudinal 500cc twins
• BSA Sunbeam, a motor scooter
• Sunbeam 1000 hp, holder of the first land speed record of greater than 200 miles per hour
• Sunbeam (biplane), a 1920s aircraft
• Sunbeam (yacht), a family of sailing yachts in the 10–14m range
• Sunbeam (passenger train), a passenger train operated from 1925 to 1955 between Houston and Dallas

Other

• Sunbeam Playschool
• Sunbeam (album), a 1978 album by The Emotions
• Ponygon and Kafk Sunbeam, characters in Zatch Bell!
• Operation Sunbeam, a series of four nuclear tests conducted at the United States of America's Nevada Test Site in 1962

See also

• All pages beginning with "Sunbeam"
• All pages with titles containing "Sunbeam"
• Beam (disambiguation)
• The Sunbeam (disambiguation)