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unusual facts about W. S. Stratton



Agri-Fab, Inc.

Other products made by Agri-Fab are ground-engaging attachments (rock rake, disc cultivator, row crop cultivator, scraper box, tow-behind tiller), an ATV/UTV compatible rough-cut mower, 15 and 25 gallon tow-behind sprayers, and a Mow-N-Vac and Chip-N-Vac (both with Briggs & Stratton engines).

Brian Stratton

McNulty's predecessor was Stratton's father and fellow former mayor of Schenectady, Samuel S. Stratton.

Church of St Vigor, Stratton-on-the-Fosse

This church is one of only two English churches dedicated to him, the other being at Fulbourn in Cambridgeshire.

Colorado School of Mines

The honorary named Colorado School of Mines buildings commemorate Dr. Victor C. Alderson, Edward L. Berthoud, George R. Brown, Dr. Regis Chauvenet, Dr. Melville F. Coolbaugh, Cecil H. and Ida Green, Simon Guggenheim, Nathaniel P. Hill, Arthur Lakes, Dr. Paul D. Meyer, Winfield S. Stratton, and Russell K. Volk.

Dorothy C. Stratton

She is the namesake of the Coast Guard's third National Security Cutter, the USCGC Stratton (WMSL-752).

In 2008, the Coast Guard named its third National Security Cutter the USCGC Stratton (WMSL-752) in her honor.

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ELTO

Meanwhile, the Evinrude Motor Co. floundered, and in 1929, Stephen Foster Briggs, co-founder of its new owner, Briggs & Stratton Corporation; proposed a merger between the Evinrude Motor Co., the Elto Outdoor Motor Co., and the Lockwood Motor Co. of Jackson, Michigan.

Grover Lewis

In 2005, the University of Texas Press released a compendium of his entire career entitled Splendor in the Short Grass, edited by and with an introduction by Jan Reid and W.K. Stratton, and with a foreword by Dave Hickey and a remembrance by Robert Draper.

Ingersoll Power Equipment

In the late 1990s the tried and true, yet obsolete and expensive Onan twin cylinder engine was abandoned for the Briggs & Stratton Vanguard OHV twin.

John L. N. Stratton

Stratton was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses, serving in office from March 4, 1859 to March 3, 1863, but was not a candidate for renomination in 1862 to the Thirty-eighth.

John Stratton

John L. N. Stratton (1817–1889), American Republican Party politician in New Jersey

Knox Street Historic District

Just past Myrtle Avenue one block south of the district is the Samuel S. Stratton Veterans Administration hospital, part of a large complex of health-care facilities.

MCA Solutions

MCA Solutions customers have included: Bobst Group, Boeing, Bombardier Aerospace, Briggs & Stratton, Brocade Communications Systems, Cymer, KLA-Tencor Corporation, Lam Research, Lockheed Martin, Rockwell Collins, Sysmex Corporation, Tellabs, U.S. Navy and Varian Semiconductor

Nellie Walker

In 1902, reclusive Colorado Springs millionaire W. S. Stratton died and someone there realized that Walker was in town and asked her to make a death mask, which she did.

Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT

Under the leadership of Director Julius A. Stratton and Associate Director Albert G. Hill, it continued investigation on problems in physical electronics that involved cathodes, electronic emission, and gaseous conduction.

Richard A. Stratton

He developed an early interest in aviation with initial visits in the mid-1930s to Dennison’s Airport (Squantum), Quincy, Massachusetts, the home of the Harvard Aero Club and host to such luminaries as Amelia Earhart.

His father was Charles Arthur Stratton (1902–1975) of South Boston, Massachusetts, a veteran of WW I (U.S. Navy) and WW II (Massachusetts State Guard).

SAE Supermileage Competition

Teams are required to use a one cylinder lawnmower engine provided by Briggs & Stratton, but significant modification is allowed.

Stephen Foster Briggs

Stephen Foster Briggs (December 4, 1885 – October 16, 1976) was an American engineer, co-founder of the company manufacturing Briggs & Stratton small internal-combustion engines and founder of Outboard Marine Corporation.

Bill Juneau, a coach at South Dakota State, knew of Briggs' ambition and the entrepreneurial interests of Harold M. Stratton, a successful grain merchant who had a farm next to Juneau's farm.

Stratton Air National Guard Base

The base is named after conservative Democratic US Representative Sam Stratton, who represented the Albany area.


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