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The Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway (reporting mark EJE) was a Class II railroad, making a roughly circular path between Waukegan, Illinois and Gary, Indiana.The railroad served as a link between Class I railroads traveling to and from Chicago, although it operated almost entirely within the city's suburbs, only entering Chicago where it served the U.S. Steel South Works on the shores of ...
In 1971, the Children's Television Workshop (now Sesame Workshop) contacted Boyd because it wanted to use Aniforms in a television show that became known as The Electric Company. During the first season, Boyd's voice was used extensively, especially for the character J. Arthur Crank, who was just an angry voice on the telephone at the time.
The Everest family sold its interest in the company in 1943, [8] but Gerald Jennings, son of Harry Sr., was chief executive from 1952 until he retired in 1985. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] In 1956, the company was "the first to manufacture the electric wheelchair on a mass scale".
Franklin Electric was founded in 1944 in Bluffton, Indiana, USA [3] by E.J. (Ed) Schaefer and T.W. (Wayne) Kehoe. They named the company Franklin Electric in honor of Benjamin Franklin, [4] whom they considered the country's first electrical engineer. The company's first product was a backpack generator to power the radio equipment paratroopers ...
But E-J's most long lasting and important economic contribution may be its influence on its neighbor in Endicott, New York: International Business Machines Corporation (now "IBM") and IBM's predecessors in Endicott the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company and (before that) The Bundy Manufacturing Co. [citation needed] IBM, due at least in ...
General Electric in Schenectady, New York, aerial view, 1896 Plan of Schenectady plant, 1896 [19] General Electric Building at 570 Lexington Avenue, New York. During 1889, Thomas Edison (1847–1931) had business interests in many electricity-related companies, including Edison Lamp Company, a lamp manufacturer in East Newark, New Jersey; Edison Machine Works, a manufacturer of dynamos and ...
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He gets his revenge by inviting himself to parties to rob the guests. One of the Uninvited's victims is J. Arthur Crank (Jim Boyd, cameoing his signature role on The Electric Company) when the Uninvited invites himself to Crank's bath night, stealing his last dry towel and his rubber duckie: the one his friend Ernie gave him. Just as the ...