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The AT&T Madison Complex Tandem Office is a 17-story, 79 m (259 ft) building in Los Angeles, California, completed in 1961. With its microwave tower, used through 1993, bringing the overall height to 137 m (449 ft), it is the 29th tallest building in Los Angeles.
The building is named after James Zera Oviatt (1888-1974) who, in 1909, came from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles to work as a window dresser at C.C. Desmond's Department Store. In 1912, Oviatt and a colleague, hat salesman Frank Baird Alexander, launched their partnership in men's clothing as the Alexander & Oviatt haberdashery, at 209 West ...
The first working model of the laser was created at Hughes Research Laboratories in 1960 by Theodore Maiman (1927–2007).; HRL began research on atomic clocks in 1959. In the late 1970s they produced experimental maser oscillators for NRL, which eventually led to space-based GPS atomic clocks.
A Los Angeles County Department of Public Works sign along 7th Street in downtown Los Angeles. The department was formed in 1985 in a consolidation of the county Road Department, the Flood Control District (in charge of dams, spreading grounds, and channels), and the County Engineer (in charge of building safety, land survey, waterworks).
The Los Angeles County Fire Museum in the Mayne Events Center, Bellflower . The Los Angeles County Fire Museum is a public museum dedicated to the history of the Los Angeles County Fire Department in Los Angeles County, California. The museum has 60 antique fire engines in its collection, including fire engines from the 1860s through just ...
The Los Angeles machine defined in the standard is a simple ball mill of specified size and shape [3] The standard charge of rock is set at 2.5–5 kilograms (5.5–11.0 lb) depending on the size of the particles. [4]
On September 11, 2015, the Mayor of Los Angeles announced a plan to lease 160 battery electric vehicles and 128 plug-in hybrids for city department use. [7] In 2016, the LAPD leased a Tesla Model S and a BMW i3 for testing purposes, [ 8 ] and decided to purchase 100 BMW i3s for administrative and non-emergency duties. [ 9 ]
John Gaughan (born 1940) is an American manufacturer of magic acts and equipment for magicians based in Los Angeles, California. His style of work is classic, not based heavily on machinery and technology. Professional illusionists have noted his work, such as David Blaine, who has several times called him "a magical genius". [1]