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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.
Area code 559 is a telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan for the central San Joaquin Valley in central California. The numbering plan area includes the counties of Fresno, Madera, Kings, and Tulare, an area largely coextensive with the Fresno and Visalia-Porterville metropolitan areas. The area code was placed in service in ...
Existing customers will keep the 559 area code and specific telephone numbers. New customers will receive the 357 demarcation. The overlay does mean that phone users will have to dial a 1 + area ...
If this map is the primary area code map of California (master map), no area code appears in red. Map is correct as of 2023-07-02. To make changes, updates, and replacing the lesser maps (the ones for a specific area code block), this file uses CSS to define the colors for each region.
Joel Spira, co-founder of Lutron, died on Wednesday, April 8, 2015, according to an Associated Press report at Fox News, filed on April 9, 2015 (UTC). He was 88, so that would make his birth date circa 1926. — Quicksilver T @ 03:53, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
In 1961, she co-founded Lutron Electronics, a lighting company, with her husband, who is credited with inventing the solid-state dimmer switch. [6] She was Lutron's co-chair, and headed the company's marketing department from 1982. [7] In 1973, the Spiras founded another company, Subarashii Kudamono, to grow Asian pears in the Lehigh Valley.
Area codes are also assigned for non-geographic purposes. The rules for numbering NPAs do not permit the digits 0 and 1 in the leading position. [1] Area codes with two identical trailing digits are easily recognizable codes (ERC). NPAs with 9 in the second position are reserved for future format expansion.
Numbering plan areas in California (blue) and border states. This map is clickable; click on any region shown to visit the page for those area codes. In 1947, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) devised the first nationwide telephone numbering plan and assigned the original North American area codes.