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That year, the company announced the construction of a new building on 11th Street, Covington, Kentucky. The building was completed in March 1923. In 1925, George Wadsworth sold his rights to 16 patents to a Cincinnati company and resigned from Wadsworth Electrical Manufacturing. David Wadsworth, George's brother, was appointed vice president ...
Founded in 1899, the Kentucky Electrical Lamp Company began operations at 817 Lewis Street (later renamed J. R. Miller Blvd., in the 1980s) in Owensboro, Kentucky. [1] The company was sold to Roy Burlew in 1918 who used it to create the Kentucky Radio Corporation, later known as Ken-Rad, which operated out of the same building.
The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) is a labor union that represents approximately 820,000 workers and retirees [1] in the electrical industry in the United States, Canada, [3] Guam, [4] [5] Panama, [6] Puerto Rico, [7] and the US Virgin Islands; [7] in particular electricians, or inside wiremen, in the construction industry and lineworkers and other employees of public ...
General Electric acquires Ken-Rad Tube Manufacturing Corporation, headquartered in Owensboro, Kentucky, and designates the Ken-Rad's plants located in Owensboro and Bowling Green, Kentucky, Tell City and Huntingburg, Indiana, as its primary vacuum tube manufacturing facilities [7] 1949 GE Armament Division test-fires the M61 Vulcan rotary cannon
The Kentucky State Penitentiary in Eddyville houses Kentucky's Old Sparky. Kentucky's electric chair, known as "Old Sparky", is located at the Kentucky State Penitentiary in Eddyville, Kentucky. It was first used on July 8, 1911; the first inmate to die in the chair was James Buckner, convicted of killing a police officer several weeks earlier ...
Kentucky came late to the game, launching the Kentucky Un-American Activities Committee in 1968. The group, known by many as KUAC, was only an interim committee, authorized to meet until the next ...
In 1952, in order to fulfill the tremendous electrical needs of an atomic enrichment plant the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission was building in Piketon, Ohio, several investor-owned electrical utilities jointly formed two new energy companies—the Ohio Valley Electric Corporation (OVEC) and the Indiana-Kentucky Electrical Company (IKEC). [1]
Italian physicist and electrical engineer Galileo Ferraris publishes a paper on the induction motor, and Serbian-American engineer Nikola Tesla gets a US patent on the same device [4] [5] 1890: Thomas Alva Edison invents the fuse: 1893: During the Fourth International Conference of Electricians in Chicago, electrical units were defined 1893