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The lock company, Slaymaker, Barry and Company, was founded in 1888 by Samuel R. Slaymaker and John F. Barry of Connellsville, Pennsylvania. Samuel Slaymaker had become interested in switch and signal locks while working for the Pennsylvania Railroad as a civil engineer. In 1894 the company was reorganized and renamed the Slaymaker–Barry ...
Charles Redrup was interested in engineering from an early age and his father paid for him to take an apprenticeship with the Great Western Railway company for a five-year period. [1] After a short round-trip aboard a merchant ship to America, Redrup returned to Barry, entered into a partnership with Alban Richards, the son of a Barry ...
Control Data Corporation (CDC) was a mainframe and supercomputer company that in the 1960s was one of the nine major U.S. computer companies, which group included IBM, the Burroughs Corporation, and the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), the NCR Corporation (NCR), General Electric, and Honeywell, RCA and UNIVAC.
In 1890, Barry's brother-in-law Alfred Wehmiller also joined the company and by 1897, both men purchased the company fully and it became the Barry-Wehmiller Machinery Company. Under the Barry-Wehmiller partnership, the company developed and began offering its own pasteurizers and bottle washers and grew from a regional to worldwide supplier.
In September 2011, [31] Tyco International's directors announced plans to split the company once again, separating the company's Flow Control business, North America's residential security business and its international fire and security business in a plan that Chief Executive Ed Breen described as: "the best path to create long-term ...
January 15, 2008 VMware, Inc. announces it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Thinstall, a privately held application virtualization software company. February 12, 2008 Sun Microsystems announces that it had entered into a stock purchase agreement to acquire InnoTek, makers of VirtualBox.
1987: Siebe plc acquires the Barber-Colman Company, an industrial automation and controls business. 1990: Siebe plc acquires the Foxboro Company, another industrial automation business. [2] [3] 1994: Siebe plc bought Triconex, a safety control business. [2] 1997: Siebe plc acquired APV plc.
The FreeRTOS kernel was originally developed by Richard Barry around 2003, and was later developed and maintained by Barry's company, Real Time Engineers Ltd. In 2017, the firm passed stewardship of the FreeRTOS project to Amazon Web Services (AWS). Barry continues to work on FreeRTOS as part of an AWS team. [6]