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unusual facts about The Fisher


The Fisher

The Fisher was the brand name for hi-fi electronic equipment manufactured in New York by The Fisher Radio Corp. during the "golden age" of the vacuum tube, which was named after the company founder, Avery Fisher.



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Alfred Newman Gilbey

Educated by Jesuits at Beaumont College, he went on to study Modern History at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1920, during which time he became chairman of the Fisher Society at the chaplaincy.

Daniel Featley

On 27 June 1623 a famous conference was held at the house of Sir Humphrey Lynde between Featley and Francis White, the dean of Carlisle, and the Jesuits John Piercy (alias Fisher) and John Sweet; an account was surreptitiously printed the same year, with the title The Fisher catched in his owne Net.

Fisher information

The Fisher information was discussed by several early statisticians, notably F. Y. Edgeworth.

The role of the Fisher information in the asymptotic theory of maximum-likelihood estimation was emphasized by the statistician R.A. Fisher (following some initial results by F. Y. Edgeworth).

Fisher Towers

The Fisher Towers were featured in the opening scene of Austin Powers in Goldmember.

Fisher-Porter tube

For decades these flasks used to be made by the Fisher & Porter Company until it became a part of ABB.

Francis Sabie

The British Museum copies of The Fisher-mans Tale and Flora's Fortune, which are in fine condition, were acquired from Sir Charles Isham's collection in 1894 (Times, 31 Aug. 1895; Bibliographica, iii. 418–29).

Helen Schelle

Alongside businessman Herman Fisher and Price's wife, Illustrator Margaret Evans Price, the Fisher-Price Company was formally established later that year in East Aurora, New York.

Living Waters Christian Assembly

Started in approximately 1995 by The Life Centre, the Westend Church moved from a renovated warehouse on Woodward Drive in Carlington, to the Fisher Park High School auditorium in Ottawa West, finally to their own building on Slack Road near Merivale Rd.

Lobster fishing

Commercial fishing regulators in the United States, such as the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission and the National Marine Fisheries Service, enforce restrictions through the use of lobster fishing licenses and lobster pot tags that correspond to the fisher's permit number.

Meusebach–Comanche Treaty

Only five Adelsverein settlements were attempted in the Fisher-Miller land grant area: Bettina, Castell, Leiningen, Meerholz, and Schoenburg.

Paul Fisher

Paul C. Fisher (1913–2006), American industrialist and inventor of the Fisher Space Pen

The Toy Collector

Furthermore, we see the lives of Gunn's childhood toys—from Rom, Spaceknight to the Fisher-Price Little People, who seem to have lives and thoughts of their own outside Gunn's world.