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Western Electric
COMPANY Formerly the manufacturing and research arm of AT&T. The process of incorporation of WE's components into its parent started in 1984 and was completed in 1995. Parts of the old WE are owned by a number of companies, including AT&T and Lucent.
Industry:
Energy
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(defunct) EXECUTIVES
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Alexander Graham Bell |
Inventor |
3-Mar-1847 |
2-Aug-1922 |
Inventor of the telephone |
EMPLOYMENT
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| John Bardeen |
Physicist |
23-May-1908 |
30-Jan-1991 |
Co-Inventor of the transistor |
| John Cook |
Politician |
27-Feb-1946 |
|
Mayor of El Paso |
| Lee De Forest |
Inventor |
26-Aug-1873 |
30-Jun-1961 |
Inventor of the Audion vacuum tube |
| Walter S. Gifford |
Business |
10-Jan-1885 |
7-May-1966 |
President of AT&T, 1925-48 |
| Jerry Huckaby |
Politician |
19-Jul-1941 |
|
Congressman from Louisiana, 1977-93 |
| Joseph M. Juran |
Scientist |
24-Dec-1904 |
28-Feb-2008 |
The Pareto Principle |
| Eugene Kleiner |
Business |
12-May-1923 |
20-Nov-2003 |
Venture capitalist |
| James P. Mitchell |
Government |
12-Nov-1900 |
19-Oct-1964 |
US Secretary of Labor, 1953-61 |
| Michael Sitrick |
Business |
8-Jun-1947 |
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Sitrick and Company |
| Frank J. Sprague |
Inventor |
25-Jul-1857 |
25-Oct-1934 |
Streetcars and express elevators |
EXTRANEOUS
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| W. Edwards Deming |
Mathematician |
14-Oct-1900 |
20-Dec-1993 |
Quality Control guru |
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