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In July 1924 engineer James Cyril Stobie (1895–1953) [1] submitted the patent application for his pole design in both English and French. It was accepted in November 1925. Stobie described his invention as...an improved pole adopted to be used for very many purposes, but particularly for carrying electric cables, telegraph wires...
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The Stobie pole was invented in 1924 by James Cyril Stobie of the Adelaide Electric Supply Company and first used in South Terrace, Adelaide. [16] One of the early Bell System lines was the Washington DC–Norfolk line which was, for the most part, square-sawn tapered poles of yellow pine probably treated to refusal with creosote.
Stobie may refer to: Stobie pole, a kind of power pole common in South Australia; Adam Stobie, Scottish prisoner in the 17th century; James Stobie, 18th century factor to John Murray, 4th Duke of Atholl; William Stobie (1950–2001), Ulster Defence Association (UDA) quartermaster and RUC Special Branch informer
According to Henry McDonald and Jim Cusack, Stobie provided the gun used to kill Pat Finucane, and they further claimed that once he gave the weapon to the hit team, he called the RUC to let them know that a killing was about to take place. [15] In April 1999, as part of the Stevens Enquiry, Stobie was arrested and charged with Finucane's murder.
Only Murders in the Building is an American mystery comedy drama television series created by Steve Martin and John Hoffman.The show focuses on a trio of strangers (played by Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez) with a shared interest in true crime podcasts, who become friends while investigating a succession of suspicious murders in the Arconia, their upscale apartment building on ...
[1] [2] A mass murder typically occurs in a single location where one or more persons kill several others. [3] [4] [5] Specific notable subtypes of mass murder, including politically motivated crimes, workplace killings, school attacks and familicides, have their own lists.
George Junius Stinney Jr. (October 21, 1929 – June 16, 1944) was an African American boy who, at the age of 14 was convicted and then executed in a proceeding later vacated as an unfair trial for the murders of two young white girls in March 1944 – Betty June Binnicker, age 11, and Mary Emma Thames, age 8 – in his hometown of Alcolu, South Carolina.