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The Robert W. Baird Outstanding Achievement Award in Employee Giving [17]; Forbes 400 Best Big Companies [18]; BusinessWeek Top 100 "Hot Growth Company" [19]; Investor's Business Daily: "Actuant Corp. Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Manufacturer is a switch-hitter on growth" [20]
Western Auto sold Simplex motorcycles under the Wizard brand in the mid-1950s. [1] Simplex's minimalist philosophy was maintained throughout the company's history, whose designs changed little after 1935. By the 1950s Simplex's designs were primitive, leading to the end of Servi-Cycle and Automatic production in 1960.
SPX Corporation is an American manufacturing company, headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. [2] [3] [4] The company operates within four markets: heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (), detection and measurement, power transmission and generation, and engineered solutions.
The company was started in 1903 as Lee Stroyer, a joint venture by Jens Stroyer and Pelham Lee.In 1905, following the departure of Stroyer, it was relocated to Paynes Lane, Coventry, and renamed as Coventry Simplex by Horace Pelham Lee, [1] a former Daimler employee, who saw an opportunity in the nascent internal combustion engine market.
The common hand soap dispenser is such a pump. Radial piston pump – a form of hydraulic pump where pistons extend in a radial direction. Vibratory pump or vibration pump – a particularly low-cost form of plunger pump, popular in low-cost espresso machines. [15] [16] The only moving part is a spring-loaded piston, the armature of a solenoid.
Coded panels were the earliest type of central fire alarm control, and were made during the 1800s to the 1970s. A coded panel is similar in many ways to a modern conventional panel (described below), except each zone was connected to its own code wheel, which, depending on the way the panel was set up, would either do sets of four rounds of code until the initiating pull station was reset ...
Drs. Eugeniusz Lazowski and his medical-school friend Stanisław Matulewicz were practicing in the small town of Rozwadów in Poland during World War II.Dr. Matulewicz realized that since Proteus vulgaris strain OX19 was used to manufacture the then-common Weil-Felix antibody-agglutination test for typhus, inoculating villagers with dead Proteus would cause a false positive result without ...
The Weil–Felix test is an agglutination test for the diagnosis of rickettsial infections. It was first described in 1916. It was first described in 1916. By virtue of its long history and of its simplicity, it has been one of the most widely employed tests for rickettsia on a global scale, despite being superseded in many settings by more ...