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Geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) is a system for defining and communicating engineering tolerances via a symbolic language on engineering drawings and computer-generated 3D models that describes a physical object's nominal geometry and the permissible variation thereof. GD&T is used to define the nominal (theoretically perfect ...
In 1956, a large property in Beaverton became available, and the company's employee retirement trust purchased the land and leased it back to the company. [10] Construction began in 1957 and on May 1, 1959, Tektronix moved into its new Beaverton headquarters campus, [10] on a 313-acre (1.27 km 2) site which came to be called the Tektronix Industrial Park.
Jean Bernard Léon Foucault (1819–1868), France – Foucault pendulum, gyroscope, eddy current; Benoît Fourneyron (1802–1867), France – water turbine; John Fowler (1826–1864), UK – steam-driven ploughing engine; Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), U.S. – the pointed lightning rod conductor, bifocal glasses, the Franklin stove, the ...
Jean Lee (aircraftwoman) (born 1924), Canadian aircraftwoman Jean Lee (murderer) (1919–1951), Australian murderer, and the last woman to be hanged in Australia Jean Lee (archer) (1925–2010), American archer
Jean Amédée Hoerni (September 26, 1924 – January 12, 1997) was a Swiss-born American engineer. He was a silicon transistor pioneer, and a member of the " traitorous eight ". He developed the planar process , an important technology for reliably fabricating and manufacturing semiconductor devices , such as transistors and integrated circuits .
Jean Marian Purdy (25 April 1945 – 16 March 1985) was a British nurse, embryologist and pioneer of fertility treatment. She was responsible with Robert Edwards and Patrick Steptoe for developing in vitro fertilisation (IVF); Louise Joy Brown , the first "test-tube baby", was born on 25 July 1978, and Purdy was the first to see the embryonic ...
In 2002, Blount's corporate headquarters moved from Montgomery, Alabama, to Portland, Oregon. In 2004, it changed its NYSE symbol to BLT, which remained the company's ticker symbol until 2015. On December 10, 2015, Blount announced that it would be taken private by American Securities and P2 Capital Partners in an all-cash transaction valued at ...
Jean-Baptiste-Jacques Élie de Beaumont, French lawyer [14] Tim Beaumont (1928–2008), British politician [12] William Beaumont (1785–1853), surgeon in the U.S. Army who became known as the "Father of Gastric Physiology" following his research on human digestion. Raised in Harmony Lodge, Champlain, New York, 11 April 1820. [10]