• The Western Electric Company was an American electrical engineering and manufacturing company that operated from 1869 to 1996. A subsidiary of the AT&T...
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  • The Western Electric rules are decision rules in statistical process control for detecting out-of-control or non-random conditions on control charts. Locations...
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    Graybar (redirect from Graybar Electric)
    11, 1925, as the successor company of the general electric supply business of the Western Electric Company, which was founded in 1869 in Cleveland, Ohio...
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    conglomerate. The laboratory began in the late 19th century as the Western Electric Engineering Department, located at 463 West Street in New York City...
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  • Western Electric Export Corporation (or simply Western Electric) is a manufacturer of vacuum tubes and high end audio gear. Based in Rossville, Georgia...
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  • Electric and Manufacturing Company. Until an antitrust settlement in 1949, Northern Electric was owned mostly by Bell Canada and the Western Electric...
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  • was discovered in the context of research conducted at the Hawthorne Western Electric plant; however, some scholars think the descriptions are fictitious...
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    Corporation, a part of American Telephone and Telegraph Company's Western Electric manufacturing arm since 1930, came into being in 1928 when the Morkrum-Kleinschmidt...
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    the country, its subsidiary Western Electric produced much of its equipment. Relinquishing ownership of Western Electric was one of the Justice Department’s...
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    The Western Electric model 500 telephone series was the standard domestic desk telephone set issued by the Bell System in[North America from 1950 through...
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    cables Western Electric Company, Bell's equipment manufacturing arm Bell Labs, conducting research and development for AT&T and Western Electric; ownership...
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    The Western Electric hand telephone sets comprise a series of telephones that were produced from 1927 by the Western Electric Company for the American...
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    2017) Surge Protection Syncade TopWorx Tescom Therm-O-Disc Universal Western Electric Co. (1960) Verdant Vilter White-Rodgers WORKSHOP Zedi On October 2...
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    consisting of measurements of multiple samples. They are a set of modified Western Electric rules, developed by James Westgard and provided in his books and seminars...
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    Singer. FBO had come under the effective control of a Western Electric competitor, General Electric's RCA division, which was looking to market its new sound-on-film...
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    United States went into effect. Nippon Electric Company, Limited was organized the same day as Western Electric Company to become the first Japanese joint-venture...
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    department, Douglas Shearer, dissatisfied with the loudspeakers of Western Electric and RCA, decided to develop his own. John Hilliard, Robert Stephens...
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    that was manufactured in the United States by Western Electric from 1937 until 1955, and by Northern Electric in Canada until the late 1950s, until well...
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  • dinner they attended with the Western Electric brass. Harry Warner then signed a partnership agreement with Western Electric to use Bell Laboratories to...
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  • AT&T Technologies business unit of AT&T Corporation, which included Western Electric and Bell Labs. Lucent was merged with Alcatel SA of France on December...
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    describe an electromagnetic telephone. 1872: Elisha Gray founds the Western Electric Manufacturing Company. 1872: Professor Vanderwyde demonstrates Reis's...
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  • in the U.S. forces AT&T/Western Electric to sell its stake in Northern Electric to Bell Canada. Deprived of its Western Electric tie, Northern starts developing...
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    Alcatel and U.S.-based Lucent, the latter being a successor of AT&T's Western Electric and a holding company of Bell Labs. In 2014, the Alcatel-Lucent group...
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  • of the self-titled debut album by the Griffin-led country rock band Western Electric, which included Neil Robert Herd and Pat McGarvey from the Coal Porters...
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  • States until anti-trust regulators agreed to allow AT&T to retain Western Electric and enter general trades computer manufacture and sales in return for...
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    manufacturers, that of the Western Electric Company for the Bell System, and that of the Automatic Electric Company. The Western Electric dial had spur gears...
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    configuration, as shown in the photo of a Western Electric Type 3B varistor of June 1952 (below). Western Electric 3B varistor made in 1952 for use as click...
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    system was passed over to Western Electric for industrial application. After a “make or buy” committee at Western Electric decided to have the hand tool...
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    ownership by Western Electric, and also established other divisions as national companies across Continental Europe and Russia. Western Electric was itself...
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  • Western Electric's Reading Works in Berks County, Pennsylvania was a manufacturer of integrated circuit and optoelectronic equipment for communication...
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