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unusual facts about electrician



Channa Horwitz

Horwitz was born in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, on May 21, 1932; her father was an electrician and inventor.

Charles Tilston Bright

Joining with Cyrus West Field and J. W. Brett, who controlled the Newfoundland Telegraph Company, Bright helped organize the Atlantic Telegraph Company in 1856 to develop a transatlantic cable, with himself as engineer-in-chief; Wildman Whitehouse soon joined them as chief electrician.

Danny Blanchflower

He left early to become an apprentice electrician at Gallaher's cigarette factory in Belfast.

Duke Vin

After travelling to England in 1954 as a stowaway on a boat from Kingston, he found work as an engine cleaner for British Rail, becoming an electrician two years later.

École nationale supérieure d'ingénieurs électriciens de Grenoble

The École nationale supérieure d'ingénieurs électriciens de Grenoble (ENSIEG, French for Superior National School of Electrician Engineers of Grenoble) is a centenary school in Grenoble, France.

Edmond Bruce

Bruce was born in Saint Louis, Missouri, and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Brooklyn, and Washington, D.C. In 1917 he left high school to join the Navy and was eventually chief radio electrician in the transatlantic communication service, serving at the Otter Cliffs Radio Station in Bar Harbor, Maine.

Eric Hammond

He served his apprenticeship as an electrician with the Bowater paper company, and in 1950 was called up for national service, serving for two years with the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.

Generosa Ammon

On January 15, 2002, she married her boyfriend, Daniel Pelosi, an unlicensed electrician whom she met when he showed up at the doorstep of her Manhattan townhouse because he was told she was hiring workers for a remodeling job.

Jack Slipper

He served as an electrician with a nightfighter squadron at West Malling, and was then posted to the Rhodesian Air Training Group in Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe) in 1943.

Jack Youll

A former colliery electrician at Thornley, Durham, he was 21 years old, and a Temporary Second Lieutenant in the 1st Battalion, The Northumberland Fusiliers, British Army, attached to 11th (Service) Battalion during the First World War when the following deed took place at the battle of Asiago for which he was awarded the VC.

Jan Těsnohlídek

After K. V. Raise grammar school in Hlinsko he had many jobs - worked in bookstores, coffee shops, construction sites as a bricklayer, electrician, in galleries, in a fast-food restaurant, in the notary and attorney's office, etc.

John Hendy

His mother was the youngest daughter of the 6th Baron Wynford and his father was "a communist electrician and trade unionist".

John Verwey

Verwey is a dual-ticketed millwright and electrician and currently operates a laboratory at the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station near Port Elgin.

Kelvin Hughes

William Thomson was appointed a director of the Atlantic Telegraph Company in 1856 and in 1858 was 'electrician' on HMS Agamemnon that laid the first transatlantic telegraph cable.

Mario Barth

After finishing an apprenticeship as telecommunication electrician at Siemens in Berlin he started an education as actor, which he also finished successfully.

Maurice Procter

Later he lodged at 24 Cromwell Street, Halifax with local electrician Arthur Edwin Blakey and his wife Isabella who was in service, working as a cook at Heathfield House, Rishworth, near Halifax.

Moshe Flimann

After emigrating to Palestine, he worked in the "Stein" factory in Yafo, and subsequently as an electrician, until he found work as a teacher of physics and math in Tel Aviv.

Murder of Dennis Jurgens

Dennis was adopted by the Jurgenses of White Bear Lake, Minnesota, a suburb of Saint Paul: Harold Jurgens, a former bandleader turned electrician, and Lois Jurgens, a homemaker.

Nick Lalich

Lalich remained in the Bonnyrigg area, where he worked as an electrician for Prospect Electricity before his election to the City of Fairfield council as a Labor candidate in 1987.

Pierre Le Guennec

Pierre Le Guennec is a retired French electrician who announced, in 2010, that he was in possession of 271 undocumented, never before seen works by Pablo Picasso that were estimated to be worth at least 60 million euros (about US$80 million).

Rambhai

Kori was an electrician before he opened his 'chai' joint, where he has been supplying tea for the last 25 years.

Sam Saunders

Before becoming a professional footballer, Saunders worked as an electrician for the London Underground.

Stanisław Jaros

Stanisław Jaros (January 19, 1932 – January 5, 1963) was a Polish electrician who was executed for carrying out two assassination attempts of Polish Communist leader Władysław Gomułka, and one attempt to kill Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.

Steve Fisher

In 1997, after it was revealed that Maurice Taylor had visited Ed Martin, a retired Ford electrician, the school launched an investigation.

Terry Lake

Lake was born in Odiham, Hampshire, England, to a father, Morris, who worked as an electrician in the Royal Air Force.

The Little Lost Child

A production of The Old Homestead at Brooklyn's Amphion Theater, where Thomas was chief electrician, featured the song "Where Is My Wandering Boy Tonight?" illustrated by a single slide of a young man in a saloon.

Thom Karremans

In 2010, a survivor of the Srebrenica genocide, Hasan Nuhanović, and the relatives of the murdered Muslim electrician Rizo Mustafić (who was employed by Dutchbat during the genocide until he was turned over to the Serbs and executed) made a legal complaint of genocide and war crimes against Karremans, his former deputy Major Rob Franken, and Human Resources manager Berend Oosterveen, for their transfer of the Muslim families to the Serbs.

Wally Rehg

Following his baseball career, Regh worked as an electrician helper at Paramount Pictures Studios until the time of his death, in Burbank, California, at the age of 57.

Walter John Kilner

Walter John Kilner, M.D. B.A., M.B. (Cantab.) M.R.C.P., etc. (1847–1920) was a medical electrician at St. Thomas Hospital, London.

Wrong-side failure

1980s - Valley Heights train collision - electrician wrongly replace out clear glass lenses with coloured glass causing false colour with reflected sunlight.


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