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Sprague was awarded the gold medal at the Paris Electrical Exhibition in 1889, the grand prize at the St. Louis Exhibition in 1904, the Elliott Cresson Medal in 1904, the Edison Medal of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, now IEEE, in 1910 ' For meritorious achievement in electrical science, engineering and arts as exemplified in his contributions thereto ', the Franklin Medal in 1921 and the John Fritz Gold Medal ( posthumously ) in 1935.
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Mr. Devey first came to Sprague in 1953 as a Product Specialist in the Field Engineering Department, coming from the Office of Naval Research in Washington, D. C., where he was an electronic scientist engaged in undersea warfare studies.
He was named Product Manager of the Special Products Division of Sprague when it was founded in 1958, and was later promoted to his present post.
The company was resold, following a further bankruptcy event, by the Receiver in 1975 to North American businessmen Peter Sprague and George Minden for £ 1. 05 million.
The company was badly hit by the economic contraction of the early 1980s as worldwide sales of Aston Martin shrank to three per week and chairman Alan Curtis together with fellow shareholders American Peter Sprague and Canadian George Minden came close to shutting down the production side of the business, to concentrate on service and restoration.
Completed by P. Schuyler Miller and John D. Clark, the chronology was later revised by Clark and L. Sprague de Camp in An Informal Biography of Conan the Cimmerian ( 1952 ).
* The first full-length biography was Lovecraft: a Biography ( ISBN 0-345-25115-6 ), written by L. Sprague de Camp ; published in 1975, it is now out of print.
" Hannover " ( as it was spelled in the 1761 charter ) was named either after a local parish in Sprague, Connecticut, or after the House of Hanover in honor of the reigning British king, George III.
This two-sided stethoscope was invented by Rappaport and Sprague in the early part of the 20th century.
Frank J. Sprague, a competent mathematician and former naval officer, was recruited by Edward H. Johnson and joined the Edison organization in 1883.
The theorem was discovered independently by R. P. Sprague ( 1935 ) and P. M. Grundy ( 1939 ).
Lyon Sprague de Camp ( November 27, 1907 – November 6, 2000 ) was an American author of science fiction and fantasy, non-fiction and biography.
De Camp was born in New York City, one of three sons of Lyon de Camp and Emma Beatrice Sprague.
His maternal grandfather was the accountant, banker, pioneering Volapükist and Civil War veteran Charles Ezra Sprague.
& W. Sprague Company was purchased by the Edwards Manufacturing Company, which erected extensive brick mills for manufacturing cotton textiles.
Electrification of factories began very gradually in the 1890s after the introduction of a practical DC motor by Frank J. Sprague and accelerated after the AC motor was developed by Nikola Tesla ( Westinghouse ) and others.
The carpet was 22 by 40 feet, and was made by William Peter Sprague, an Englishman from Axminster ( probably trained under Thomas Whitty ) who had set up a factory in Philadelphia.
The first perfect squared square was found by Roland Sprague in 1939.
At age twenty Farrand was introduced to one of her primary mentors, the botanist Charles Sprague Sargent, who at Harvard University was both a professor of horticulture at the Bussey Institute and the founding director of the Arnold Arboretum in Boston, Massachusetts.
This allowed Sprague to use electric motors to invent the first electric trolley system in 1887 – 88 in Richmond VA, the electric elevator and control system in 1892, and the electric subway with independently powered centrally controlled cars, which was first installed in 1892 in Chicago by the South Side Elevated Railway where it became popularly known as the " L ".
At that time Sprague was 27 years old.
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The Tigers were awarded two players from the Senators, Punch Broadbent and Sprague Cleghorn by NHL president Calder, but both refused to sign with the Tigers, and eventually returned to the Senators.
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The later volumes contain some stories rewritten by L. Sprague de Camp ( like " The Treasure of Tranicos "), including several non-Conan Howard stories, mostly historical exotica situated in the Levant at the time of the crusades, which he turned into Conan yarns.
During World War II, he did aeronautical engineering for the U. S. Navy, also recruiting Isaac Asimov and L. Sprague de Camp to work at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in Pennsylvania.
Sprague believed in standardization at a time when railroads were going in 76 different directions with their own ideas of how cars should be built.
Sprague is located at ( 40. 625415 ,-96. 745478 ).
In 1887, the post office relocated to the Brewster Standard building, the present location of the Sprague Building at 31 Main Street.
Sprague was first settled by William Newman, who established an inn at the location.
Sprague is located at ( 47. 298974 ,-117. 977532 ).
The first shopping mall was built at University Village on Sprague Avenue ( formerly called Appleway ), which became the major artery through the Valley, lined with stores and restaurants.
Burnside ( seated, center ) and officers of the 1st Rhode Island at Camp Sprague, Rhode Island, 1861.
The work was initially planned in November 1936 and was premiered at the Coolidge Festival in Pittsfield, Massachusetts on September 22, 1938 in response to a commission that year from Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge.
* To reach the Angle over land, one would take Minnesota State Highway 313N ( Warroad, Minnesota to Sprague, Manitoba ) across the border into Manitoba, Canada, connecting to Provincial Road 12 in Manitoba at the border, then to Provincial Road 308 Manitoba, to Provincial Road 525, then finally crossing back into the United States in the Northwest Angle south of rural developed Angle Inlet, Minnesota ( Angle Inlet Township ).
The Sprague Memorial Hall at Yale University was also financed by Coolidge.
During his investigation Bucky observes a mysterious young woman named Madeleine Sprague, a wealthy and promiscuous socialite who resembles Elizabeth Short, at a lesbian bar.
A well-known example is L. Sprague de Camp's Lest Darkness Fall in which an American archaeologist of the 1930s arrives at Ostrogothic Italy and manages to prevent the Dark Ages by introducing printing and other modern inventions.
On December 3, 1920, Sprague joined 33 other classmates at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida as a student pilot.
From May 1934 to July 1936, Sprague served as Air Operations Officer at Naval Air Station Norfolk, Virginia, where his department serviced several aircraft carrier squadrons.
Sprague was ordered to the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, in June 1939 where he spent three months in study before reporting to his first sea command, the 21-year old oil tanker at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington.
As a result of his leadership at Pearl Harbor, Sprague was promoted to captain on January 3, 1942.
Arriving at Bethlehem Steel Company Fore River Yard near Boston, Massachusetts, Sprague took command of Wasp where she was commissioned on November 24, 1943.
On July 9, 1944, shortly before leaving Wasp, Sprague was promoted to rear admiral at age 48.
In February 1946, Sprague was given command of Navy Air Group 1. 6 of Joint Task Force 1 with his flag in at San Diego, California.
On January 1, 1949 to February 1950, Sprague was Commander of Naval Air Bases, Eleventh and Twelfth Naval District at Naval Air Station Coronado in San Diego, California.
In the United States Charles Sprague Sargent noted the earliest appearance in a nurseryman's catalogue in 1820, but in 1859 " the finest Copper Beech in America ... more than fifty feet high " was noted in the grounds of Thomas Ash, Esq., Throggs Neck, New York ; it must have been more than forty years old at the time.
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