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On August 1, 2004, Craigslist began charging $25 to post job openings on the New York and Los Angeles pages. On the same day, a new section called "Gigs" was added, where low-cost and unpaid jobs can be posted for free. In March 2008, Spanish, French, Italian, German, and Portuguese became the first non-English languages Craigslist supported. [14]
The resulting company, (to become Osram in 1909), [clarification needed] was to lead the way in lamp design, and the burgeoning demand for electric lighting was to make GEC's fortune. [6] In 1900, GEC was incorporated as a public limited company, The General Electric Company (1900) Ltd (the '1900' was dropped three years later). [5]
English Electric took over Vulcan Foundry and Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns, [35] both with substantial railway engineering pedigrees, in 1955. English Electric produced nearly 1000 diesel and electric locomotives, of nine different classes, for British Rail as part of the Modernisation Plan in the 1950s and 1960s. Most of these classes of ...
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[53] The original BS 1363:1947 specified fuse ratings of 3 A, 7 A and 13 A. [54] The current version of the fuse standard, BS 1362:1973, allows any fuse rating up to 13 A, with 3 A (coloured red) and 13 A (coloured brown) as the preferred (but not mandated) values when used in a plug. All other ratings are to be coloured black.
They soon went into the English Electric grouping but Willans & Robinson retained its identity and some independent shareholders until 1935 when it was liquidated. In the 21st century Willans & Robinson's business is represented by Alstom where it was taken by GEC in 1989 along with English Electric.
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The centre was named after Hugo Hirst, one of the founders of the company that would become the General Electric Company. One of the centre's most famous achievements was the production of the cavity magnetron during World War II , the concept of which was established by Randall and Boot working at Birmingham University .