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Some designs were produced especially for specific industries (e.g. Model 12 for Auto-electrical work) and at the request of large companies, the British armed forces and later NATO. The company also designed and made other electronic instruments such as signal generators, valve (vacuum tube) testers and valve characteristic meters and ...
James Biddle (February 18, 1783 – October 1, 1848), of the Biddle family, brother of financier Nicholas Biddle and nephew of Capt. Nicholas Biddle, was an American ...
James G. Marshall was born on August 24, 1869 to Joseph Williams Marshall and Mary Allen Marshall, on the family farm located in Buffalo Run Valley near Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. He was the youngest among 10 siblings, with four brothers and five sisters. [ 2 ]
The cash register, invented by the American saloonkeeper James Ritty in 1879, addressed the old problems of disorganization and dishonesty in business transactions. [73] It was a pure adding machine coupled with a printer , a bell and a two-sided display that showed the paying party and the store owner, if he wanted to, the amount of money ...
James Gilbert Claude Hamilton (18 May 1851 – 26 March 1926) was a Scottish-American sculptor active in Cleveland, Ohio from about 1887-1898. According to Artists in Ohio, he was said to be a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and according to the Building News and Engineering Journal, he served as an assistant to Alexander Milne Calder for sculptures in the Philadelphia ...
Brigadier General John Biddle and staff in charge of the railway regiments of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, at the light railway works at Boisleux-au-Mont, September 2, 1917. Biddle was commissioned an engineer. Biddle was in charge of river and harbor work at Nashville, Tennessee from 1891 to 1898.
Nicholas Biddle (January 8, 1786 – February 27, 1844) was an American financier who served as the third and last president of the Second Bank of the United States (chartered 1816–1836). [1] Throughout his life Biddle worked as an editor, diplomat, author, and politician who served in both houses of the Pennsylvania state legislature.
James G. Hill (1841–1913) [1] was an American architect who, during the period 1876 to 1883, headed the Office of the Supervising Architect of the United States Department of the Treasury, [2] which oversaw major Federal buildings. During that period he designed or supervised design of many courthouses, post offices and other public buildings.