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Originally named Allen Manufacturing Company, the business produced hexagonal set screws and wrenches to fasten them. The terms "Allen wrench" (American English) and "Allen key" (British English) [ 3] are derived from the Allen brand name and refer to the generic product category "hex keys". W.G. Allen [ 4] filed the first related patent in ...
A hex key (also, hex wrench, Allen key and Allen wrench or Inbus) is a simple driver for bolts or screws that have heads with internal hexagonal recesses ( sockets ). Hex keys are formed from a single piece of hard hexagonal steel rod, having blunt ends that fit snugly into similarly shaped screw sockets. The rods are bent to 90º, forming two ...
Dortch Stove Works. / 35.93278°N 86.79333°W / 35.93278; -86.79333. Dortch Stove Works is an historic stove manufacturing plant in Franklin, Tennessee. It was built in 1929 by Allen Manufacturing Company, then based in Nashville, Tennessee. During its manufacturing prime, the plant produced stoves and ranges under Allen Manufacturing ...
The FBI raided a Doral body shop on Friday morning and arrested the owner in connection to the investigation of the plot to kill Alex Vega, a famed Miami car designer to the stars. Rolando “Roly ...
The story surfaced in late 1955 when Allen sent a book full of hand-written annotations referring to the experiment to a U.S. Navy research organization and, a little later, a series of letters making further claims to a UFO book writer. Allen's account of the event is widely understood to be a hoax. [1] [2]: 300–301 [3]
Rockwell Automation, Inc. is an American provider of industrial automation and digital transformation technologies. Brands include Allen-Bradley , FactoryTalk software and LifecycleIQ Services. Headquartered in Milwaukee , Wisconsin, Rockwell Automation employs approximately 26,000 people and has customers in more than 100 countries worldwide.
Hudson Institute is an American non-partisan think tank based in Washington, D.C. [8] [9] [10] It was founded in 1961 in Croton-on-Hudson, New York, by futurist Herman Kahn and his colleagues at the RAND Corporation.
1961 – The American National Standard Institute, Inc. (ANSI) published American Standard Specifications for Making Buildings Accessible to, and Usable by, the Physically Handicapped (the A117.1 Barrier Free Standard). This landmark document, produced by the University of Illinois, became the basis for subsequent architectural access codes.