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The W. & L. E. Gurley Building is a historic industrial building in Troy, New York, United States. Built in 1862, it is a classical revival structure that housed the W. & L. E. Gurley Company, a maker of precision measuring instruments. The Gurley Company was one of the first companies in the nation to make precision instruments.
Troy has nearly been destroyed by fire three times. What was known as the Great Troy Fire of 1862 burned down the W. & L. E. Gurley Company factory, which later that year was replaced by the new W. & L. E. Gurley Building, now a National Historic Landmark: Gurley & Sons remains a worldwide leader in precision instrumentation to this day.
Gurley was a long-time trustee of Rensselaer, having been elected to that position in 1855. He was secretary of the institution from 1861 to 1872, vice-president from 1872 to 1887 and acting president from 1886 to 1887. He died on January 11, 1887, in Troy. The W. & L. E. Gurley Building in Troy was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1983.
The Gurley second or Gurley unit is a unit that describes air permeability as a function of the time required for a specified amount of air to pass through a specified area of a separator under a specified pressure. Specifically, it is defined as the number of seconds required for 100 cubic centimeters (1 deciliter) of air to pass through 1.0 ...
Mile High Park Historic District – Location: Roughly along Oregon Ave. and Josephine St. from Gail Gardner Way and Lindberg Dr. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places on September 3, 1999, reference #99001069; North Prescott Townsite Historic District – Location: Between Gurley, Sheldon, Alarcon and Summit Sts. Listed in the ...
The establishment of a transit development district in downtown Gary aims to help increase the economic benefits stemming from investments in the region’s transportation infrastructure, the ...
W. & L. E. Gurley Building, the Gurley Precision Instruments's National Historic Landmark building This page was last edited on 18 November 2020, at 06:55 ...
A transit district or transit authority is a government agency or a public-benefit corporation created for the purpose of providing public transportation within a specific region. A transit district may operate bus , rail or other types of transport including ferry service, or may operate other facilities.