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  19th century - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1878, Thomas Edison displayed his new lightbulb, and within a decade had built a major electrical distribution system across the nation.
Louis Pasteur made the first vaccine against rabies, and also made many discoveries in the field of chemistry, including the asymmetry of crystals.
Thomas Alva Edison gave the world light with his invention of the lightbulb.
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 Virginia Institute for Public Policy - Board of Scholars
Daniel L. Dreisbach is a professor in the School of Public Affairs at American University in Washington, D.C. He received his doctor of philosophy degree in 1985 from Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar, and his J.D. in 1988 from the University of Virginia School of Law.
David I. Meiselman is professor of economics and director of the Graduate Economics Program in northern Virginia at the Virginia Polytechnic institute and State University.
Thomas Carl Rustici is full-time visiting instructor of economics at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.
www.virginiainstitute.org /scholars.php   (8774 words)

  
 HighBeam Encyclopedia - Watson, Thomas John, Jr.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The son of Thomas John Watson, Sr., the founder of the International Business Machines Corp. (IBM), he joined the family business following his graduation from Brown Univ. in 1937.
Except for service as a pilot in the Army Air Corps during World War II, he spent the rest of his career at IBM, becoming company president (1952-61), chairman (1961-71), and chairman of the executive board (1972-79).
Moby-Dick and John Singleton Copley's Watson and the Shark.
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 Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP | The Firm | History
Thomas N. Tarleau, legislative counsel to the Treasury Department and a draftsman of the 1942 Tax Reform Act, joined the Firm in 1942 as a partner and built up the Firm's tax department, which he would head for a quarter-century.
In addition to its continuing regular representation of major industrial and railroad companies and increasing baseball-related business, the Firm in the 1940’s began its rise to preeminence in the field of private placements for insurance companies.
The Frankfurt office, headed by Thomas Heymann and Sven-Erik Heun, specializing in private equity, restructurings, information technology and telecommunications law, opened with 12 attorneys and other professionals in October 2000.  By 2004 it had doubled in size to include 21 lawyers and three legal assistants.
www.willkie.com /firm/firm.aspx?type=history   (2408 words)

  
 Pittsburgh PA Allegheny County Pennsylvania links directory
The city became the focus of historic friction between labour and management, and the American Federation of Labor was born there in 1881.
In the Point Breeze neighborhood are the Frick Art Museum and Clayton, the former home and estate of industrialist Henry Clay Frick, now open to the public.
Several major strikes occurred in the second half of the 19th century, the most severe of which were the 1877 railroad strike and the 1892 Homestead Strike.
www.alleghenycounty.net   (5406 words)

  
 Molinari Institute
David Friedman’s Law as a Private Good: A Response to Tyler Cowen on the Economics of Anarchy
David M. Hart’s Class Analysis, Slavery and the Industrialist Theory of History: The Radical Liberalism of Charles Comte and Charles Dunoyer
Thomas DiLorenzo’s Frédéric Bastiat: Between the French and Marginal Revolutions
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