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    The Elgin National Watch Company Observatory is a historic building in Elgin, in the U.S. state of Illinois. It was built in 1910 to serve the Elgin National...
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    The Elgin National Watch Company, commonly known as Elgin Watch Company, was a major US watch maker from 1864 to 1968. The company sold watches under the...
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    cultural events. The Elgin National Watch Company factory was demolished in 1966. Aside from the Elgin National Watch Company Observatory, there are few other...
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  • "Waltham Watches" The Elgin Watch Collectors Site "Elgin Watches" Archived 2010-08-19 at the Wayback Machine U.S. Naval Observatory "History" Archived 2017-12-19...
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    Webb C. Ball (redirect from Ball watch)
    Ball Watch Company. When Standard Time was adopted in 1883, he was the first jeweler to use time signals from the United States Naval Observatory, bringing...
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    millimeter) watch movement. Glycine incorporated this module into its watches in October 1930, and began mass-producing automatic watches. The Elgin National Watch...
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    1970s, the Swiss watch industry had 50% of the world watch market. In the early 1950s a joint venture between the Elgin Watch Company in the United States...
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    This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Kane County, Illinois. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties...
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  • Research UK. For voluntary services to Cancer Patients and to the community in Elgin. Veronica Maclean. Patron, Moray Fundraising Group, Marie Curie. For voluntary...
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    Retrieved 11 October 2024 – via Trove. A remarkable fatality occurred at Glen Elgin, near Glen Innes, on Saturday morning when Mrs. W. C. Eckersley, a well-known...
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    retired lecturer Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin Alfred W. Hallett, artist Kishan Kapoor, Member of Parliament Sher Jung...
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    Environment Mesonet. National Weather Service Chicago IL. Retrieved July 13, 2023. "The Kane County team has confirmed a second tornado in Elgin just to the south...
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    Lake Bee Burnett Crescent Valley Cromwell Electron Elgin Firwood Glencove Lakebay McNeil Island National Ohop Paradise Point Fosdick Shore Acres Shorewood...
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    Robert Smirke (architect) (category Elgin Marbles)
    best-known building. Having previously designed a temporary gallery for the Elgin Marbles following their acquisition by the British Museum in 1816, his role...
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    ISSN 1941-0646. ProQuest 1250603314; "13 More Concerns Take Space at Fair; Watch Company's Exhibit to Trace History of Timepieces From Rope-Burning Days". The...
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  • code reader from World War II; a 1912 Longines pocket watch from the United States Naval Observatory; and a signed letter by John Quincy Adams. Also, Corey...
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  • 1989) Tower Ballroom, Blackpool (7 January 1990) Paignton (14 January 1990) Elgin (21 January 1990) Elsinore Castle, Denmark (28 January 1990) Leominster...
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    military training. On the recommendation of the Viceroy of India, Lord Elgin in 1898, in early 1899 Sir Brian Egerton (of the Egerton family and former...
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    ASTRA ceased to run the observatory for North Lanarkshire District Council in May 2009, ceding the running of the observatory to the Airdrie Astronomical...
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  • Electronic Road Pricing Element Magazine Elephant statue Elephant trunk snake Elgin Bridge (Singapore) Eli T. Elias Allenspach Elias MRT station Elijah Lim...
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    2017-04-10. "Sustainability – ROCKWOOL Group – Arctic Geodetic Earth Observatory". rockwool.com. Archived from the original on 2016-10-23. Retrieved 2017-04-10...
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    was sparsely occupied and consisted mostly of forest. Hosack opened the Elgin Botanic Garden, the country's first public botanical garden, on the site...
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    became a Greek and Latin scholar and married Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin. Winters were usually spent in Edinburgh. In the winter of 1796 Somerville...
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    Archived from the original on 5 June 2016. Retrieved 18 May 2016. Ben Elgin (23 December 2011). "Israel Didn't Know Tech Gear Was Sent to Iran Via Denmark"...
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  • galleries around Scotland Historic Environment Scotland National Trust for Scotland List of National Trust for Scotland properties Tourist attractions in...
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    eighty years. What became Nebraska Hall was purchased from the Elgin National Watch Company in 1958 and NU relocated most of its engineering programs there...
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  • C1617A Color TV". Visions4 Magazine. 2018-04-12. Retrieved 2019-03-23. Observatory, Palomar (2018-05-14). "Westinghouse H840CK15 Color TV". Visions4 Magazine...
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  • schemes as well. In September 1860, a Milwaukee-bound steamship, the Lady Elgin, sank off the coast of the campus in stormy weather after colliding with...
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  • captured the city and sacked the Summer Palace and Old Summer Palace. Lord Elgin, the commander of the expedition, ordered the burning of the Old Summer...
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    Aluminium Wire and Cable Company, Ltd., Port Tennant, Swansea Arthur Charles Stanley Wescott, Foreman, Royal Observatory (New Eltham, S.E.9) Eileen...
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