* Dresser Atlas, a provider of oil field services and subsequently factory automation services

To comply with federal antitrust regulations, Dresser sold off its interest in M-I Drilling Fluids Company and Western Atlas International.

* Western Atlas, a joint venture formed with Dresser Industries, including former Litton subsidiary Western Geophysical.

Western Atlas was formed in 1987 through the merger of Western Geophysical ( owned by Litton Industries ) and Dresser Atlas.

Dresser Atlas was a division of Dresser Industries Inc.

Dresser Atlas provided open-hole petrophysics and oilfield completion services around the world in competition with Schlumberger and others.

After several years of losses in 1994 Halliburton sold HGS to Western Atlas ( formerly Western Geophysical until its merger with Dresser Atlas in 1987 ).

In 1987, Litton and Dresser Industries formed a joint venture comprising Western and Dresser Atlas.

He later entered the oil business working for Dresser Atlas Industries of Dallas.

Most of the swing gang's work occurs before and after the shooting crew arrives but one set dresser remains with the shooting crew and is known as the On-set Dresser.

: The Greensman is a specialised Set Dresser dealing with the artistic arrangement or landscape design of plant material, sometimes real and sometimes artificial, and usually a combination of both.

Comic use is made of Sir's inability to physically carry any actress cast as Cordelia opposite his Lear in the 1983 film of the stage play The Dresser.

Attica is the nearest town to the location where Paul Dresser is believed to have written the state song, " On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away ", and the bridge over the Wabash River bears his name.

It is separated from Terre Haute by the Wabash River and a strip of low land ( known alternately as Dresser or Taylorville ) on the west side of the river.

The Dresser is a successful 1980 West End and Broadway play by Ronald Harwood, which tells the story of an aging actor's personal assistant, who struggles to keep his charge's life together.

The village is named after Artemas Dresser, the first permanent settler and a subsequent owner of mills.

Dresser is a village in Polk County, Wisconsin, United States.

Dresser is located at ( 45. 357187 ,-92. 634513 ).

Dresser is home to the Traprock Quarry, Trollhaugen Ski / Snowboard Area, F & A Dairy, and a UFE Manufacturing plant.

Christopher Dresser is considered the world's first Industrial Designer.

Prescott Bush was a director of Dresser Industries, which is now part of Halliburton ; his son, former president George H. W. Bush, worked for Dresser Industries in several positions from 1948 to 1951, before he founded Zapata Corporation.

Mark Dresser ( b. 1952 in Los Angeles ) is an American double bass player and composer.

The Wabash is the state river of Indiana, and subject of the state song " On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away " by Paul Dresser.

The new Dresser is a leading global multi-national owned by First Reserve Corporation ( U. S. based investment firm ) and company management.

His former students include bass virtuosos Mark Dresser and Karl E. H. Seigfried ; Dresser now holds Turetzky's former UCSD faculty position, while Seigfried is working with Turetzky on the latter's autobiography.

The Stationary gas turbines is General Electric LM1600 engine, and the DR990, which Volvo bought the OEM responsibility from Dresser Rand.

Dresser kept no diary of his personal life, and most of it is known through his younger brother Theodore.

Dresser Drive, a street in the Forest Hills neighborhood of Anderson, Indiana, is named for him, as is the Dresser Bridge, which crosses the Wabash River, near Attica, Indiana.

* 1965 – Louise Dresser, American actress ( b. 1878 )

* April 22 – Paul Dresser, American songwriter ( d. 1906 )

Louise Dresser ( October 5, 1878 – April 24, 1965 ) was an American actress.

** American Vampires: by Fans, Victims, Practitioners by Norine Dresser

Johann Paul Dresser, Jr. ( Born Johann Paul Dreiser, Jr .; April 22, 1857 – January 31, 1906 ) was a popular American songwriter of the late 19th century and early 20th century.

American work has also been important-Tennessee Williams, O ' Neill, Miller, August Wilson-as has new writing, with the world premieres of The Dresser, Amongst Barbarians, A Wholly Healthy Glasgow and Port to its name.

On 1 June 1898, George W. Vanderbilt married Edith Stuyvesant Dresser ( 1873 – 1958 ) at the American Cathedral in Paris, France.

* Paul Dresser, American musician and songwriter, brother of Theodore Dreiser

* Brett Halliday ( 1904 – 1977 ), pen name of American mystery author Davis Dresser

Written and composed by American songwriter Paul Dresser, it was published by the Tin Pan Alley firm of Howley, Haviland & Co. in October 1897.

" An Indiana newspaper compared the song in popularity to " Swannee River " and wrote of the song, " Mr. Dresser ... has endeavored to perpetuate the beauties of the Wabash as did Stephen Foster that of the Suwanee River, and certainly no song since the latter has awakened so much interest among lovers of a good song, nor has any other American author seemed as capable of filling the void left vacant by Foster.

In 1998, Dresser merged with its main rival Halliburton, Halliburton sold many of former Dresser non " oil patch " divisions, retaining the M W Kellogg Engineering and Construction Company and the Dresser oil-patch products and services that complemented Halliburton's energy and natural resource businesses.

In 2001 Halliburton sold five separate, but somewhat related former Dresser non " oil patch " divisions, to an investment banking firm.

Starting in 1930 Dresser began acquiring companies that manufactured valves, heaters, pumps, engines and compressors and the company diversified into such products as oil derricks, blowers, drill bits, refractories, and drilling mud.

Some of Dresser ’ s metalwork designs are still in production, such as his oil and vinegar sets and toast rack designs, now manufactured by Alessi and Alberto Alessi goes so far as to say Dresser ' knew the techniques of metal production better than any designer who has come to Alessi '.