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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 commodore. His flagship was USS Columbus .
James Griffin Boswell (May 13, 1882 - September 11, 1952), was the founder of the J. G. Boswell Company, known today as the world's largest privately owned farm. Primary crops include Pima cotton , [ 1 ] alfalfa hay, tomatoes , onions , and wheat , all cultivated on some 135,000 acres (550 km 2 ) mostly in Kings County, California .
The James G. Boswell Foundation is the charitable foundation established in 1947 by James Griffin Boswell (May 13, 1882 – 1952), founder of the J. G. Boswell Company, a successful farm and agricultural supplies enterprise established in Corcoran, California in 1921. The Foundation supports agricultural, general education, health concerns, pre ...
James Graham Fair (December 3, 1831 – December 28, 1894) was an Irish immigrant to the United States who became a highly successful mining engineer and businessman. His investments in silver mines in Nevada made him a millionaire, and he was one of the famous " silver kings " who became wealthy on the Comstock Lode .
James Garrett Thimmes (October 4, 1896 – January 16, 1955) was an American labor unionist. Born in Hemlock, Ohio , Thimmes left school at the age of 15 and worked in a pottery, and then from 1911 in steel mills in Youngstown, Ohio .
James George Smyth was a California political figure in the early 20th century. He was active in Democratic politics, served a term in the 1930s as the Chief Clerk of the California Assembly, and later served as an IRS official in the administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman. In 1951, he was indicted on federal tax fraud ...
MBA Polymers was founded in 1994 [3] in California [4] [5] by Laurence "Trip" Allen III [6] [7] and Mike Biddle. [8] [9] Allen and Biddle were coworkers at Dow Chemical in Walnut Creek, CA where Allen developed a novel approach to recycling packaging plastics.