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The W. & L. E. Gurley Building is a historic industrial building in Troy, New York, United States. Built in 1862, it is a classical revival structure that housed the W. & L. E. Gurley Company, a maker of precision measuring instruments. The Gurley Company was one of the first companies in the nation to make precision instruments.
Gurley was a long-time trustee of Rensselaer, having been elected to that position in 1855. He was secretary of the institution from 1861 to 1872, vice-president from 1872 to 1887 and acting president from 1886 to 1887. He died on January 11, 1887, in Troy. The W. & L. E. Gurley Building in Troy was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1983.
During the Cold war era, Gurley manufactured gyroscopes, sextants, star trackers, theodolites, angle dividers, optical positioning systems, and various other precision guidance devices for guided missiles and for space launch vehicles. [1] Teledyne Corporation acquired W. & L. E. Gurley in 1968. In 1993 Gurley was sold again and became Gurley ...
W. & L. E. Gurley Building, the Gurley Precision Instruments's National Historic Landmark building This page was last edited on 18 November 2020, at 06:55 ...
Gurley shared a few other examples of regulatory capture in modern times, and then turned to A.I. He shared onscreen a New York Times article from May entitled, “OpenAI’s Sam Altman Urges A.I ...
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In 1900, Gurley launched a two-seater buggy with a single-cylinder engine, tubular frame, bicycle wheels and tiller steering, [1] which Gurley built in his bicycle shop. [2] Gurley thought that he could make a profit by selling them at $600, but had to raise the price to $1,000. [1] Very few were made and Gurley ended manufacture in 1901. [1]
Pacific Western Transportation (also d/b/a P.W. Transportation) provides a variety of bus services in the Canadian provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario and Yukon. Depending on the location, it offers scheduled and chartered school busing, municipal transit and handi-bus services, airport passenger services and local and ...