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The Henry Ford II World Center, also commonly known as the Ford World Headquarters and popularly known as the Glass House, [1] [2] is the administrative headquarters for Ford Motor Company, a 12-story, glass-faced office building [3] designed to accommodate a staff of approximately 3,000.
City Place is a mixed-use facility featuring two 20-story buildings in central Fort Worth, Texas.The complex was formerly known as Tandy Center and served as the corporate headquarters for RadioShack (formerly Tandy Corporation) for many years, designed by Growald Architects of Fort Worth, Texas and built by Beck. [1]
The Tandy-Kake, first on the market in 1931, later became the Kandy Kake, the most popular cake in the company's history, with nearly half a million baked and packaged each day. [ 4 ] In the 1970s and 80s, Tastykake sought to respond to the changing demographics and aging population of the region.
The company once again became independent in 1933 when it was spun-off as a subsidiary of the newly formed Sperry Corporation. [2] [5] The new corporation was a holding company for a number of smaller entities such as the original Sperry Gyroscope, Ford Instrument Company, Intercontinental Aviation, Inc., and others. The company made advanced ...
The RadioShack TRS-80 Color Computer, later marketed as the Tandy Color Computer, is a series of home computers developed and sold by Tandy Corporation.Despite sharing a name with the earlier TRS-80, the Color Computer is a completely different system and a radical departure in design based on the Motorola 6809E processor rather than the Zilog Z80 of earlier models.
In 1908, the company was renamed Detroit Fuse and Manufacturing. Horton, an 1895 electrical engineering graduate of the University of Michigan , was credited with the invention of the safety switch, which encased high voltage switches and started the company's main line of business of circuit breakers and encased control panels. [ 2 ]
The concept of a national museum dedicated to African-American history and culture can be traced back to the second decade of the 20th century. In 1915, African-American veterans of the Union Army met at the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., [6] for a reunion and parade.
TRS-80 Model III. In July 1980 Tandy released the Model III, a mostly-compatible replacement for the Model I. Its improvements over the Model I included built-in lower case, a better keyboard, elimination of the cable spaghetti, 1500-baud cassette interface, and a faster (2.03 MHz) Z-80 processor.