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unusual facts about McGraw-Edison


History of street lighting in the United States

When the sodium era began around 1970, the company (by then, renamed McGraw-Edison) produced the boxy, rectilinear, more simplified Unidoor 400 (for metropolitan expressways and city boulevards) and Unidoor 175 (for smaller residential streets and alleys).


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Originally erected at Stinchfield Woods near Dexter, Michigan, in July 1969, the telescope was moved to its current location in 1975 through the generous financial support of McGraw-Hill Incorporated and the Sloan Foundation.

Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, 1937

Connie Mack and John McGraw, who had been excellent players in the 1890s and had gone on to be the winningest managers in their respective leagues - Mack with 9 American League pennants and 5 World Series titles, and McGraw with 10 National League pennants and 3 World Series titles;

Benno Schmidt

Benno C. Schmidt, Jr., former president of Yale University, currently associated with Edison Schools

Caroline, No

The sounds that were lifted for the end of the Pet Sounds album were that of Train #58, "The Owl", speeding through at 70 mph through Edison, California.

Christopher Whittle

Chris Whittle, American entrepreneur, best known for founding Edison Schools, Inc.

Commonwealth Edison

In January 2007, the Chicago Tribune reported that Commonwealth Edison was behind Consumers Organized for Reliable Electricity (CORE), an organization that had been arguing against a proposed statewide freeze in electricity rates.

Edison Giménez

Mario Edison Giménez (born 5 April 1981 in Pedro Juan Caballero) is a Paraguayan footballer that currently plays for Colombian Primera A side Itagüí as striker.

Edison Volta Prize

Edison Volta Prize is awarded biannually by the European Physical Society (EPS) to individuals or groups of up to three people in recognition of outstanding achievements in physics.

Edison-Lalande cell

In 1880, the manufacturer De Branville and Company of 25 rue de la Montagne Sainte-Geneviève, Paris exploited the patent of Lalande and Chaperon to build copper oxide batteries.

Edison, New Jersey natural gas explosion

On March 23, 1994, late night syndicated radio host Art Bell interviewed Neal Chase, who had predicted the nuking of New York City for that exact day.

Emil Norlander

In the 1910s and 1920s Emil Norlander was introduced to Swedish-American audiences through recordings on the Columbia, Edison and Victor labels.

Engineering News

Engineering News-Record, a weekly magazine published by The McGraw-Hill Companies

Fred Ott's Sneeze

Fred Ott's Sneeze (also known as Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze) is an 1894 American, short, black-and-white, silent documentary film shot by William K.L. Dickson and starring Fred Ott.

Frequency-hopping spread spectrum

Perhaps the earliest mention of frequency hopping in the open literature is in radio pioneer Jonathan Zenneck's book Wireless Telegraphy (German, 1908, English translation McGraw Hill, 1915), although Zenneck himself states that Telefunken had already tried it.

George Charles Haité

As president he fashioned his own medal shaped like a painter's palette and staged a then-novel "Phonograph Evening" where the members recorded their voices onto an Edison wax Phonograph cylinder.

Gwen Lux

Her commissions included sculptures for Radio City Music Hall in New York City, the McGraw-Hill Building in Chicago, the General Motors Technical Center in Detroit, and the centerpiece for the first class dining room of the SS United States.

Harold McGraw III

McGraw is also chairman of the National Council on Economic Education; co-chair of Carnegie Hall's Corporate Leadership Committee and member of its Board of Trustees; member of the boards of the New York Public Library, National Organization on Disability, National Academy Foundation, Partnership for New York City, National Actors Theater and Prep for Prep.

Harry Edison

According to the Encyclopedia of Jazz in the Seventies, Edison in the 1960s and 1970s continued to work in many orchestras on television shows, including Hollywood Palace and The Leslie Uggams Show, specials with Frank Sinatra; prominently featured on the sound track and in the sound track album of the film, Lady Sings the Blues.

Harry "Sweets" Edison (October 10, 1915 – July 27, 1999) was an American jazz trumpeter and member of the Count Basie Orchestra.

Hometown, My Town

Arnold Eidus, Julius Held, Max Hollander, Harry Lookofsky (#4-6), Harry Edison (#4-6, Leo Kruczek, Tosha Samoroff, H. Urbont, Maurice Wilk, Paul Winter, David Nadien (#2), Fred Buldrini (#2) - violin

IBooks

The day before the iPad event, Terry McGraw, the CEO of McGraw-Hill, appeared to divulge information to Erin Burnett on CNBC about the upcoming iPad release.

Joanie Greggains

Greggains, Joanie, Ann Louise Gittleman, The Fat Flush Plan, McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., 2003, ISBN 0-07-143547-6

John H. Leims

After high school, he attended Northwestern University for two and a half years, and worked part-time at the Commonwealth Edison Company.

Kaseman Beckman Advanced Strategies

That year, the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America awarded KBAS a Philament Award, and McGraw-Hill Construction selected them for Project of the Year in park/side/landscaping.

Kinetoscope

During the first week of January 1894, a five-second film starring an Edison technician was shot at the Black Maria; Fred Ott's Sneeze, as it is now widely known, was made expressly to produce a sequence of images for an article in Harper's magazine.

Long Tall Weekend

The next year, "Rat Patrol," "Token Back to Brooklyn," "Reprehensible," "Certain People I Could Name" and "They Got Lost" appeared on the rarities compilation album They Got Lost, and "The Edison Museum" appeared on No!.

Marnie McPhail

Marnie McPhail (born July 4, 1966) is an American Actress and voice artist who is known for playing Maria Wong in Braceface, Annie Edison in The Edison Twins, and Peaches in JoJo's Circus.

Marshalltown, Nova Scotia

Marshalltown was the birthplace of Samuel Edison, father of Thomas Edison (1847-1931), and it was also the home of folk artist Maud Lewis (1903-1970) from 1938 until her death.

Müllerian mimicry

Wickler, W. (1968) Mimicry in Plants and Animals (Translated from the German) McGraw-Hill, New York.

Neighborhoods of Kalamazoo

Four of the city's parks are located in the Edison neighborhood, including the Mayor's Riverfront Park, where the Kalamazoo Kings and Kalamazoo Kingdom sports teams play.

News 12 Networks

Launched in 1996, News 12 New Jersey, in addition to its main newsroom in Edison, also has regional newsrooms in Newark, Trenton, Madison, Oakland and Wall Township.

Pantograph

This was employed by Edison and Columbia in 1898, and was used until about January 1902 (Columbia brown waxes after this were molded).

Parkinson's law of triviality

Jan Pen, Harmony and Conflict in Modern Society, (Trans. Trevor S. Preston) McGraw–Hill, 1966 p.

Randy Karraker

He previously was the host of the popular CCIN television program Chalk Talk, along with Malcolm Briggs, McGraw Millhaven, and Tony Twist.

Richard D. Braatz

He has received many honors including the Hertz Foundation Thesis Prize, the Donald P. Eckman Award from the American Automatic Control Council, the Curtis W. McGraw Research Award from the Engineering Research Council, and the Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize from the Antonio Ruberti Foundation and IEEE Control Systems Society.

Roger Bresnahan

The Giants obtained younger and faster players in 1909; McGraw had Chief Meyers ready to succeed Bresnahan at catcher.

Russell Hunting

Hunting traveled to England in 1898, and became recording director of Edison Bell Records.

Samuel McGraw

Tim McGraw, Samuel Timothy "Tim" McGraw (born 1967), American country singer and actor

Soul to Soul

Soul2Soul Tour (2000) or Soul2Soul II Tour (2006–07), co-headlining tours by country music singers Tim McGraw and Faith Hill

Space Station Freedom

James Oberg, Star-Crossed Orbits: Inside the U.S.-Russian Space Alliance (New York: McGraw Hill, 2001)

String section

Nicolas Slonimsky described the cellos-on-the-right arrangement as part of a 20th century "sea change" (Lectionary of Music, p. 342 (McGraw-Hill 1989).

The Edison Twins

It starred Andrew Sabiston and Marnie McPhail as fraternal twins Tom and Annie Edison, Sunny Besen Thrasher as their mischievous little brother Paul, and Milan Cheylov as their bumbling friend Lance Howard.

The Warren Brothers

Also that year, McGraw performed "If You're Reading This" at the Academy of Country Music awards, and released that song as a single after radio stations began playing a telecast of the song.

Thomas McGraw

Tam McGraw died of a suspected heart attack at his home in Mount Vernon, Glasgow.

Thomson-Houston Electric Company

Thomson-Houston later merged with the Edison General Electric Company of Schenectady, New York, to form the General Electric Company in 1892, with plants in Lynn and Schenectady, both of which remain to this day as the two original GE factories.

Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre

2004: The cast of the 2003 Broadway production of Big River; Nancy Coyne, chief executive of the theater advertising agency Serino Coyne; restaurateurs Frances and Harry Edelstein of Cafe Edison and Vincent Sardi, Jr. of Sardi's; photographer Martha Swope.

Yoshiro Okabe

Edison liked him very much, and brought him camping with Henry Ford and Harvey Samuel Firestone.


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