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Joel Solon Spira (March 1, 1927 – April 8, 2015) was an American inventor, entrepreneur, and business magnate.. He invented a version of the light-dimmer switch for use in homes around the United States and led his Lutron Electronics Company into the production of lighting controllers.
[5] In 2007, following the death of Harold Leviton, the company named Harold's sons-in-law Donald Hendler and Stephen Sokolow CEO and chairman of the board respectively. [10] Later in 2007, Leviton was sued by electronics company Lutron over alleged infringement of patents. [11] In 2009, the company moved its headquarters to Melville, Long ...
Pontis is a software application developed to assist in managing highway bridges and other structures. Known as AASHTOWare Bridge Management since version 5.2, Pontis stores bridge inspection and inventory data based on the U.S. Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) National Bridge Inventory system coding guidelines.
Five Mile Bridge may refer to: Maestri Bridge, across Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana, United States; Five Mile Bridge, a listed building in Lyne, Scottish Borders; Five Mile Bridge, a bridge on Ohio State Route 555 over the Muskingum River; Five Mile Bridge, a footbridge across the Witham in Fiskerton, Lincolnshire, England
steel, pin-connected, pony Pratt half-hip truss bridge on concrete wall abutments with flared wing walls. It crosses Sutter Creek in a wooded, rural setting. At a length of 115 feet (five panels at 23 feet each), it is very long for a pony truss, which is generally used for light vehicular traffic on short spans. In profile, the truss is a ...
The Fabens–Caseta International Bridge was an international bridge which crossed the Rio Grande connecting the United States–Mexico border towns of Fabens, Texas, and Caseta, Chihuahua. The bridge was also known as Puente La Caseta. The two-lane bridge was constructed in 1938. [1] The bridge was demolished in 2016 following the completion ...
The bridge is 14 miles (23 km) from the mouth of the river at the Pacific Ocean. The bridge is four miles (6.5 km) in length, [ 3 ] and was the final segment of U.S. Route 101 to be completed between Olympia, Washington , and Los Angeles , California .
The Mile-Long Bridge is the colloquial name for a 4,608-foot-long (1,404.5 m) bridge in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Illinois. The bridge carries Interstate 294 (I-294) over the Des Plaines River, the Chicago Ship and Sanitary Canal, two major railroad lines, and an intermodal facility. A series of 51 piers carries I-294 over the ...