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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 ...
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 ...
Patent Office Head [1] Began service: Ended service: Commissioners for the Promotion of Useful Arts or Patent Board [2] Edmund Randolph Henry Knox Thomas Jefferson: 1790: 1793 Secretary of State [3] [2] Edmund Randolph: 1794: 1795 Timothy Pickering: 1795: May 12, 1800 John Marshall: May 13, 1800: March 4, 1801 James Madison: March 5, 1801: 1802 ...
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 ...
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.
LeTourneau University, university founded by R. G. LeTourneau LeTourneau Empowering Global Solutions (LEGS), non-profit based in Longview, Texas LeTourneau Technologies , a manufacturing machines company
China dominates the global race in generative artificial intelligence patents, filing more than 38,000 patents from 2014 to 2023, a U.N. report showed.