The Warner & Swasey Company was an American manufacturer of machine tools, instruments, and special machinery. It operated as an independent business...
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Ambrose Swasey he cofounded the Warner & Swasey Company. Warner was born near Cummington, Massachusetts. He met Swasey at the Exeter Machine Works. On...
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Worcester R. Warner he co-founded the Warner & Swasey Company. Swasey was born near Exeter, New Hampshire to Nathaniel and Abigail Swasey. He apprenticed...
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Warner and Swasey Observatory is the astronomical observatory of Case Western Reserve University. Named after Worcester R. Warner and Ambrose Swasey,...
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working capital by selling one third of the company to a machine tools manufacturer Warner & Swasey Company. In 1955, when the core memory patent was issued...
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Struve Telescope was designed by Warner & Swasey Company and constructed between 1933 and 1939 by the Paterson-Leitch Company. Its 82-inch (2.1 m) mirror was...
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similar to half a binocular, a prismatic sight developed by the Warner & Swasey Company. It was a short and compact sight, and the prisms allowed the objective...
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the dome and mount of the observatory were constructed by the Warner & Swasey Company stationed out of Cleveland, Ohio. Brooks used The Smith Observatory...
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after Ambrose Swasey of the Warner & Swasey Company, which built the 82-inch telescope named after Struve at McDonald Observatory. "992 Swasey (1922 ND)"...
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different telescopic sights. Five hundred rifles were fitted with 5.2× Warner & Swasey Company Model 1913 prismatic telescopic sights manufactured in Cleveland...
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corporate builders such as Brown & Sharpe, the Warner & Swasey Company, and the original Pratt & Whitney company. In all of these cases, there were product...
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construct a 36-inch diameter Newtonian reflecting telescope. The Warner & Swasey Company of Cleveland, Ohio was contracted to build the telescope, but the...
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"exquisite photographs of comets and nebulae", according to D. J. Warner of Warner & Swasey Company. In 1880, a 36-inch (91-centimeter) lens was commissioned...
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themselves from the city. Privately owned, franchised electric streetcar companies (often controlled by land developers) laid out tracks on EUCLID AVE. This...
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Swasey 1922 ND Ambrose Swasey (1846–1937), American benefactor and mechanical engineer, co-founder, with Worcester Reed Warner of the Warner & Swasey...
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Alvan Clark & Sons (category Defunct technology companies of the United States)
The New York Times. July 16, 1899. Retrieved 2009-12-05. Deborah Jean Warner and Robert B. Ariail, Alvan Clark & Sons, artists in optics (2nd English...
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Euclid Avenue. Business sprung up around this period, including the Warner & Swasey Company in 1881. Other commercial institutions included the Doan's Corner...
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signed Warner & Swasey Company as the exclusive manufacturer and marketer of the Micral line in the United States and Canada. Warner & Swasey marketed...
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produced by the optical firm Alvan Clark & Sons and a mounting by the Warner & Swasey Company. It was the largest refracting telescope used for astronomical...
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Warner & Swasey Co. of Cleveland, Ohio. The original Foucault lens was also refigured by J.M. Brashear of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Warner & Swasey Company...
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Bullard firm; and, through Pratt & Whitney, Worcester R. Warner and Ambrose Swasey (of Warner & Swasey). In 1852 an employee of Colt's, Rollin White, came...
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University (BU) and Georgia State University. Built in 1931 by Warner & Swasey Company, it was originally located at the Perkins Observatory of Ohio Wesleyan...
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equatorial mounting. In January 1922, the order was placed with the Warner & Swasey Company to build the equatorial mount. After modifications were made to...
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features a 1.06 m (42 in) Ritchey-Chrétien telescope built in 1967 by Warner & Swasey Company of Cleveland, Ohio. It was installed in 1968, and is used primarily...
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later commissioned the Smith Observatory, with a dome built by the Warner & Swasey Company, and persuaded William Robert Brooks, a prolific comet-finder,...
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used for research, its original refracting telescope, built by Warner & Swasey Company with a 12-inch (0.3-meter) Brashear objective lens, also received...
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by McAlpine-Robertson Company of Vancouver for a price of $75,000. Both the building and dome, made by Warner & Swasey Company, are double walled. The...
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The south wall features a double-hung window. Also to the south is a Warner & Swasey chronograph, used to record the star observations. Also found in the...
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2011. Zipay, Keri (2010-01-11). "The demolition of the Cleveland Cadillac Company building". Cleveland Area History. Retrieved 2013-04-21. Murphy, Elizabeth...
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features a rare 4-foot telescope with an 8-inch lens, built by the Warner & Swasey Company in 1887. The observatory sat idle for decades, until volunteers...
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