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Wickham was born in Smithtown on Long Island, but was raised in New York. He was the son of Daniel H. and Ruth Wickham, who lived at 71 West 11th Street in New York. [1] He was a distant cousin of John Wickham, the attorney for Aaron Burr during his trial for treason. It was Burr who transformed Tammany into a political machine for the election ...
Alcoa Aluminium Piano. A piano with an aluminum piano plate, called the Alumatone plate, was announced in 1945 by Winter and Company, piano manufacturers, and Alcoa, a manufacturer of aluminum and aluminum products. [1] The metal frame of a piano, often called the plate or harp, anchors both ends of the strings, withstanding a tension of 20 ...
Estey Piano Company: New York: US 1846–1961 Euterpe Piano: New York: US 1820–1930 F. G. Smith: New York: US 1866 Falcone [67] Haverhill, MA US 1982–1993 America Sejung Corp. Francis Connor: New York: US 1871–1933 G. Rösler: Česká Lípa: Bohemia 1878–1948 Petrof: Acquired in 1993. G. Schwechten: Berlin: Germany 1854–1902
The Weber Piano Company is a former piano manufacturing company based in New York City and East Rochester, New York from the middle of the 19th century through the beginning of the 20th century, and continued as a division of Aeolian-American at East Rochester, New York until 1985, when Aeolian went out of business. [1] [4]
In 1923, Wickham was elected to the New York State Assembly as a Republican, representing Schuyler County. He served in the Assembly in 1924 [3] and 1925. [2] Wickham was a member of the Burdett Schuyler County Farm Bureau and the Freemasons. [2] In 1892, he married Nellie Donnelly of Hector. [1]
In 1980, airline industry entrepreneur Frank Lorenzo, through his holding company Texas Air Corporation, formed startup, non-union airline New York Air.Operations commenced on December 19, 1980, with hourly shuttle service between New York LaGuardia, Washington National, and Boston Logan airports in direct competition with the long-established, successful Eastern Air Lines Shuttle.
The New York factory, in the borough of Queens, supplies the Americas, and the factory in Hamburg supplies the rest of the world. [7] [13] Steinway is a prominent piano company, [14] [15] known for its high quality [16] [17] and for inventions within the area of piano development.
An advertisement for service to New York City in the 1960s. A Delta L-1011 Tristar 500 Delta was the largest operator of the Boeing 727 at one point. Delta added jet airliners to its fleet in the 1960s; the Douglas DC-8 entered service in September 1959. Delta's new red, white, and blue triangle logo (the "widget") on their aircraft represented ...