* Edward B. Almon

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Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the son of William Bruce Almon Ritchie and Lillian Stewart, he received a B. A.

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* Edward B. Almon, United States Representative from Alabama ( 1915 – 1933 )

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Lawrencium was first synthesized by the nuclear-physics team of Albert Ghiorso, Torbjørn Sikkeland, Almon Larsh, Robert M. Latimer, and their co-workers on February 14, 1961, at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory ( now called the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ) at the University of California.

* 1902 – Almon Brown Strowger, American inventor ( b. 1839 )

* 1891 – Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.

Charles Porter's photograph of firefighter Chris Fields holding the dying infant Baylee Almon won the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography in 1996.

A photograph of firefighter Chris Fields emerging from the rubble with infant Baylee Almon, who later died in a nearby hospital, was reprinted worldwide and became a symbol of the attack.

Almon Brown Strowger filed the first patent for a rotary dial, U. S. patent # 486, 909, on December 21, 1891, that was later issued to him on November 29, 1892.

The rotary dial was invented by Almon Brown Strowger in 1891.

The electromechanical automatic telephone exchange, invented by Almon Strowger in 1888, gradually replaced manual switchboards in central telephone exchanges.

* May 26 – Almon Strowger, American inventor ( b. 1839 )

* 1889 – 1891: Almon Brown Strowger of Penfield, New York files a patent for the stepping switch on March 12, 1889.

* A sacerdotal city of Benjamin ( 1 Chronicles 6: 60 ), called also Almon ( Joshua 21: 18 ), now Almit, a mile north-east of the ancient Anathoth.

The modern Israeli settlement of Anatot ( also known as Almon ) was named after it.

Among the early successes, the Parliamentary Register published by John Almon and John Debrett began in 1775 and ran until 1813.

The community was established when Almon Gage sought a railroad stop on the BNSF rail line that runs through town.

Ellsworth was laid out on 6 December 1871 by Jonathan H. Cheney ( 1833 – 1920 ) and Almon Brigham Ives ( 1816 – 1887 ) and Oliver Ellsworth, whom the town was named after.

William Almon Wheeler ( June 30, 1819 – June 4, 1887 ) was a Representative from New York and the 19th Vice President of the United States ( 1877 – 1881 ).

According to legend, Almon Strowger, an undertaker, was motivated to invent an automatic telephone exchange after having difficulties with the local telephone operators, one of whom was the wife of a competitor.

While Almon Strowger may have devised the concept, he was not alone in his endeavors and sought the assistance of his brother Arnold, nephew William and others with a knowledge of electricity and money to realize his concepts.

Because he was not with the Latter-day Saints in Utah, Cowdery was not immediately given a position of responsibility in the church, but in July 1849 Brigham Young wrote Cowdery a letter inviting him to travel to Washington, D. C. with Almon W. Babbitt to publicize Utah Territory's desire for statehood and to draft a formal statehood application.

A predecessor to the company was founded in 1891 by Almon Strowger, who was inspired by the idea of manufacturing automatic telephone exchanges that would not require operators.

William Johnston Almon was generally regarded as the unofficial Confederate consul in Halifax.

Victor Almon McKusick ( October 21, 1921 – July 22, 2008 ), internist and medical geneticist, was University Professor of Medical Genetics and Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA.

The river was first mapped and named by Almon Thompson, a member of the 1872 Colorado River expedition led by John Wesley Powell.

The first man with the title Public Printer of the United States was Almon M. Clapp.

* Almon ( river ), a river that was the mythological parent of Larunda in Roman myth

Roland Almon Ritchie, ( June 19, 1910 – June 5, 1988 ) was a Canadian lawyer and Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.

John Almon ( 17 December 1737 – 12 December 1805 ) was an English journalist and writer on political subjects, notable for his efforts to secure the right to publish reports on the debates in Parliament.

Marchildon ( see below ) states, " Charles Cahan and Almon Lovett were among the most active promoters, financiers, and managers of the new industrial enterprises during the first Canadian merger wave of 1909-1912.

Wade and others were able to escape through the assistance of prominent Nova Scotian and Confederate sympathiser William Johnston Almon.

Stepping switches were invented by Almon Strowger in 1888.

Quackwatch has also been cited or mentioned by journalists in reports on therapeutic touch, Vitamin O, Almon Glenn Braswell's baldness treatments, dietary supplements, Robert Barefoot's coral calcium claims, William C. Rader's " stem cell " therapy, noni juice, shark cartilage, and infomercials.

Edward married his second wife, Carrie " Estelle " Betzold, inside the private Pullman car of Santa Fe Railway executive Almon Porter Maginnis (" Car 214 "), on the siding in New Mexico Territory, on August 22, 1900.