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He also founded multiple companies under parent company, Laitram, LLC, including Laitram Machinery, Intralox, Lapeyre Stair, and Laitram Machine Shop — all based on his inventions. [ 8 ] Intralox registered the first patent for modular plastic belting in 1970 and has been the first company to introduce many of the conveying concepts in the ...
The map was printed by longtime New Orleans bookseller Benjamin Moore Norman. [3] As one historian wrote, "At the time Norman's chart was published, the sugar coast stood prominently at the center of political power in Louisiana. Persac's inclusion of planters' names allows the viewer to navigate his chart as a map of concentrated power."
Broadmoor is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans.A subdistrict of the Uptown/Carrollton Area, its boundaries as defined by the New Orleans City Planning Commission are: Eve Street to the north, Washington Avenue and Toledano Street to the east, South Claiborne Avenue to the south, and Jefferson Avenue, South Rocheblave Street, Nashville Avenue, and Octavia Street to the west.
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The southern boundary of the city-regulated Algiers Point Historic District, as defined by the New Orleans Historic District Landmarks Commission, is Newton Street. [ 9 ] Some of the houses and other structures in Algiers Point predate the American Civil War , but most were built in the period immediately after a catastrophic 1895 fire which ...
The 83 miles (134 km) NOO&GW was built to the "Texas gauge" of 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm), [2] the only such railroad in the New Orleans area to use that gauge; the line was converted to 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge in 1872. In 1869, steamship operator Charles Morgan bought the NOO&GW [3] and began operating it as owner.
By 1982, his efforts expanded after purchasing the 88.3 FM wavelength, making WRBH the United States’ first 24-hour FM reading radio station for the blind. In 1994, WRBH purchased a 4,000-square-foot, 19th-century Victorian building on New Orleans’ Magazine Street. This location serves as WRBH's recording studio and administrative space.
The 11th Ward or Eleventh Ward is a division of the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. The 11th Ward is one of the 17 Wards of New Orleans. [1] 19th century skating rink on Prytania Street now houses shops. The Ward was formerly part of the old Lafayette Faubourg annexed by New Orleans in the 1850s. It is part of Uptown New Orleans.