Net Deals Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Roger Cook (landscaper) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Cook_(landscaper)

    Cook owns and operates K & R Tree and Landscape Company, which he and his wife, Kathleen, [1] founded in 1982. [2] Cook's first appearance on This Old House was also in 1982. [3] At the time, he was a landscape foreman with a private company and contributed to several This Old House projects, including the Bigelow Ranch and the Woburn House.

  3. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.T._the_Extra-Terrestrial

    The 20th anniversary version of the film replaces the guns used by the federal agents with walkie-talkies. An extended version of the film, dubbed the "Special Edition" (currently out of circulation), including altered dialogue and visual effects, premiered at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on March 16, 2002; it was released on home media ...

  4. Donald Hings - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Hings

    Donald Lewes Hings, CM MBE (November 6, 1907 – February 25, 2004) was a Canadian inventor, born in Leicester, England. In 1937 [1] he created a portable radio signaling system for his employer CM&S, which he called a "packset", but which later became known as the "Walkie-Talkie". While Hings was filing a U.S. patent for the packset in Spokane ...

  5. Al Gross (engineer) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gross_(engineer)

    Al Gross (engineer) Irving " Al " Gross ( / ɡroʊs /; February 22, 1918 – December 21, 2000) was a pioneer in mobile wireless communication. He created and patented many communications devices, specifically in relation to an early version of the walkie-talkie, [1] Citizens' Band radio, [2] the telephone pager [2] and the cordless telephone.

  6. AN/PRC-6 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/PRC-6

    AN/PRC-6, somewhat battered from use. The AN/PRC-6 is a walkie-talkie (correctly a "Handie Talkie [1]) used by the U.S. military in the late Korean War era through the Vietnam War. Raytheon developed the RT-196/PRC-6 following World War II as a replacement for the SCR-536 "handy-talkie". The AN/PRC-6 operates using wide-band FM on a single ...

  7. Verna Fields - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verna_Fields

    1981 Crystal Award. Verna Fields (née Hellman; March 21, 1918 – November 30, 1982) was an American film editor, film and television sound editor, educator, and entertainment industry executive. In the first phase of her career, from 1954 through to about 1970, Fields mostly worked on smaller projects that gained little recognition.

  8. 20 Fenchurch Street - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20_Fenchurch_Street

    20 Fenchurch Street is a commercial skyscraper in London that takes its name from its address on Fenchurch Street, in the historic City of London financial district. It has been nicknamed " The Walkie-Talkie " because of its distinctive shape, said to resemble a walkie-talkie handset. [4] Construction was completed in spring 2014, and the three ...

  9. Walkie-talkie - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkie-talkie

    A walkie-talkie, more formally known as a handheld transceiver ( HT ), is a hand-held, portable, two-way radio transceiver. Its development during the Second World War has been variously credited to Donald Hings, radio engineer Alfred J. Gross, Henryk Magnuski and engineering teams at Motorola. First used for infantry, similar designs were ...