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LeTourneau Hall at Toccoa Falls College was named in his honor. [23] Toccoa Airport, also known as R. G. LeTourneau Field, was built by LeTourneau and named in his honor. Throughout his career, he was the recipient of more than 30 awards and honors related to engineering, manufacturing, and the development of heavy equipment.
LeTourneau tree crusher, Long Binh Post, South Vietnam 27 September 1967. R. G. LeTourneau founded R.G. LeTourneau, Inc. in California in 1929, as a contractor of earthmoving equipment, which manufactured products in Longview, Texas. [1] [better source needed] During World War II, the company provided nearly 75% of the Allies' earthmoving ...
R. G. LeTourneau (1888–1969), U.S. – electric wheel, motor scraper, mobile oil drilling platform, bulldozer, cable control unit for scrapers; Rasmus Lerdorf (born 1968), Greenland/Canada – PHP (programming language) Willard Frank Libby (1908–1980), U.S. – radiocarbon dating; Justus von Liebig (1803–1873), Germany – nitrogen-based ...
Impressed with the results of the Sno-Buggy, in late 1954 the Army Transportation Corps asked LeTourneau to combine the features of the Tournatrain and Sno-Buggy into a new vehicle. LeTourneau called the result the YS-1 Army Sno-Train but the Army knew it as the Logistics Cargo Carrier, or LCC-1. The LCC-1 combined the wheels of the Sno-Buggy ...
LeTourneau L-2350, mining technology LeTourneau University , university founded by R. G. LeTourneau LeTourneau Empowering Global Solutions (LEGS), non-profit based in Longview, Texas
In 2004, Letourneau was released from prison, where she had been since 1998, and registered herself as a sex offender the day after her release, NBC's "Dateline" reported.
Both AutoStore and Ocado license their technology to retailers all over the world and the companies had engaged in numerous legal battles in different countries to defend their intellectual property.
R. G. LeTourneau, prolific inventor of earthmoving machinery. Granville T. Woods, an inventor in electrical and mechanical engineering with more than 50 patents, only went to school until he was ten years old. Learning on the job, he began as a blacksmith's apprentice and continued as a machinist, an electrician, a railroad fireman, a ...