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Albert Cameron Hunt (3 April 1857 – 2 October 1915) was an American electrician who invented the wigwag, a grade crossing signal used in transportation. [1] Hunt was a mechanical engineer from Southern California. He invented the wigwag in the early 1900s out of the necessity for a safer railroad grade crossing.
Wigwag is a nickname for a type of railroad grade crossing signal once common in North America, referring to its pendulum-like motion that signaled a train's approach. The device is generally credited to Albert Hunt , a mechanical engineer at Southern California 's Pacific Electric (PE) interurban streetcar railroad, who invented it in 1909 for ...
The Magnetic Signal Company was an American company based in Los Angeles, California, focused on railway signalling.The company was the manufacturer of the ubiquitous "Magnetic Flagman" wigwag railroad crossing (or level crossing) signal, seen all over California and the western states.
Location of Hunt County in Texas. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Hunt County, Texas. This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Hunt County, Texas. There are eight properties listed on the National Register in the county.
Albert, originally Martinsburg, is a ghost town located 16 miles (25.7 km) southeast of Fredericksburg and one mile (1.6 km) west of the Blanco County line in southeastern Gillespie County, Texas, United States. [3] The town was a stop on the Fredericksburg-Blanco stage route; [3] in 1967, it became a stop on the President's Ranch Trail. [4]
English: This is a locator map showing Hunt County in Texas. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps. Date: 12 February 2006: Source:
The New York man whose pet alligator Albert was confiscated by state officials warns animal owners they could be coming for you next after a squirrel rescuer’s beloved buddy P’Nut was just ...
A Civilian Conservation Corps planning map of a parkway connecting the park to State Highway 66. The CCC constructed the first several miles in the mid-1930s to provide visitor access from US 281 to the newly renovated Longhorn Cavern State Park. Works Progress Administration workers extended the road west of the park headquarters in the early ...